Nonviral gene delivery with dendritic self-assembling architectures

Nanomedicine

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 667-693

  Tschiche, Ariane ^a   Malhotra, Shashwat ^a   Haag, Rainer ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

dendritic amphiphile; lipid; nonviral DNA siRNA delivery; polyplex lipoplex; responsive system; self assembling dendrimer; transfection efficiency

Indexed keywords

AMINE; AMPHOPHILE; DNA; SYNTHETIC DNA; DENDRIMER; LIPID; NANOCAPSULE;

BIODEGRADABILITY; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; DENDRITIC CELL; DRUG SPECIFICITY; EVOLUTION; GENE TARGETING; GENE THERAPY; GENE VECTOR; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HYDROPHOBICITY; IN VIVO GENE TRANSFER; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; NONVIRAL GENE DELIVERY SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; DIFFUSION; DRUG FORMULATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; PARTICLE SIZE; PROCEDURES; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; DENDRIMERS; DIFFUSION; DNA; DRUG COMPOUNDING; HUMANS; LIPIDS; NANOCAPSULES; PARTICLE SIZE; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 84901004401     PISSN: 17435889     EISSN: 17486963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/nnm.14.32     Document Type: Review

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