Polyamidoamine dendrimer and oleic acid-functionalized graphene as biocompatible and efficient gene delivery vectors

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 8173-8183

  Liu, Xiahui ^a   Ma, Dongmei ^a   Tang, Hao ^a   Tan, Liang ^a   Xie, Qingji ^a   Zhang, Youyu ^a   Ma, Ming ^a   Yao, Shouzhuo ^a,b  

^a HUNAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HUNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

cytotoxicity; gene transfection; graphene; oleic acids; polyamidoamine dendrimers

Indexed keywords

BIOCOMPATIBILITY; CYTOTOXICITY; DENDRIMERS; ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; FUNCTIONAL GROUPS; GENE TRANSFER; GENES; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; OLEIC ACID;

BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS; ELECTRICAL CHARGES; ENHANCED GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; FUNCTIONALIZED GRAPHENE; GENE DELIVERY VECTORS; GENE TRANSFECTION; POLYAMIDOAMINE DENDRIMERS; TRANSFECTION EFFICIENCY;

GRAPHENE;

BIOMATERIAL; DENDRIMER; GRAPHITE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; OLEIC ACID; PAMAM STARBURST;

CHEMISTRY; GENE VECTOR; GENETICS; HUMAN; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TUMOR CELL LINE;

BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; DENDRIMERS; GENETIC VECTORS; GRAPHITE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; OLEIC ACID;

EID: 84902491350     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am500812h     Document Type: Article

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