Biocompatibility and efficacy of oligomaltose-grafted poly(ethylene imine)s (OM-PEIs) for in vivo gene delivery

Molecular Pharmaceutics

Volumn 10, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 4666-4675

  Gutsch, Daniela ^a   Appelhans, Dietmar ^b   Höbel, Sabrina ^a   Voit, Brigitte ^b,c   Aigner, Achim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF POLYMER RESEARCH DRESDEN   (Germany)

^c DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

biocompatibility; gene delivery; maltose grafting; poly(ethylene imine) (PEI); siRNA

Indexed keywords

DNA; GAMMA INTERFERON; LIVER ENZYME; MALTOSE; MALTOTRIOSE; OLIGOMALTOSE; POLY(ETHYLENE IMINE); POLYMER; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL WELFARE; ARTICLE; BIOCOMPATIBILITY; ERYTHROCYTE AGGREGATION; IMMUNOSTIMULATION; IN VIVO GENE TRANSFER; LIVER TOXICITY; MELANOMA CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPORTER GENE; SURVIVAL RATE; TUMOR XENOGRAFT; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ANIMALS; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; DNA; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; IMINES; MALTOSE; MELANOMA, EXPERIMENTAL; MICE; POLYETHYLENES; POLYMERS; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SURVIVAL RATE; TRANSFECTION; TRISACCHARIDES; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 84889247529     PISSN: 15438384     EISSN: 15438392     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/mp400479g     Document Type: Article

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