Dendrimers as carriers for siRNA delivery and gene silencing: A review

The Scientific World Journal

Volumn 2013, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Wu, Jiangyu ^a   Huang, Weizhe ^a   He, Ziying ^a  

^a WUHAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBE; CARBOSILANE; DENDRIMER; POLY(PROPYLENE IMINE); POLYAMIDOAMINE; POLYGLYCEROL; POLYLYSINE; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; TRIAZINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYTOTOXICITY; GENE SILENCING; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; NONVIRAL GENE DELIVERY SYSTEM; REVIEW; RNA VECTOR; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; SURFACE PROPERTY; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; GENE THERAPY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; RNA INTERFERENCE;

ANIMALS; DENDRIMERS; GENETIC THERAPY; HUMANS; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING;

EID: 84888878884     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1537744X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2013/630654     Document Type: Review

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