Three-layered polyplex micelle as a multifunctional nanocarrier platform for light-induced systemic gene transfer

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Nomoto, Takahiro ^a   Fukushima, Shigeto ^a   Kumagai, Michiaki ^a   Machitani, Kaori ^a   Arnida, ^a   Matsumoto, Yu ^b   Oba, Makoto ^c   Miyata, Kanjiro ^b   Osada, Kensuke ^a,d   Nishiyama, Nobuhiro ^e   Kataoka, Kazunori ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^e TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPOLYMER; DENDRIMER; DENDRIMERIC PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENT; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; MACROGOL; NANOCARRIER; PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENT; PLASMID DNA; POLY(ETHYLENE GLYCOL) POLY[N [N (2 AMINOETHYL) 2 AMINOETHYL]ASPARTAMIDE]POLY(LEVO LYSINE); TRIBLOCK COPOLYMER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; URANYL ACETATE; YELLOW FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

BLOOD; GENE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; LIGHT EFFECT; MEMBRANE; POLYMER; TUMOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER TRANSPLANTATION; CELL VIABILITY; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; GENE DELIVERY SYSTEM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; HELA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO GENE TRANSFER; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO GENE TRANSFER; LYSOSOME; LYSOSOME MEMBRANE; MICELLE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHOTOCHEMICAL INTERNALIZATION; PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY; POLYMERIZATION; PROTON TRANSPORT; REFRACTION INDEX; REPORTER GENE; SOLID TUMOR; STATIC ELECTRICITY; STOICHIOMETRY; ZETA POTENTIAL;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; DNA; FEMALE; GENETIC THERAPY; HUMANS; LIGHT; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, SCID; MICELLES; NANOPARTICLES; PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENTS; POLYMERS; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 84897541202     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4545     Document Type: Article

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