Tailoring minimalist self-assembling peptides for localized viral vector gene delivery

Nano Research

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 674-684

  Rodriguez, Alexandra L ^a   Wang, Ting Yi ^b   Bruggeman, Kiara F ^a   Li, Rui ^c   Williams, Richard J ^d   Parish, Clare L ^b   Nisbet, David R ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

biomaterials; gene therapy; self assembling peptides; viral vectors

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; BIOCOMPATIBILITY; BIOMATERIALS; CELL IMMOBILIZATION; EFFICIENCY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE THERAPY; GENE TRANSFER; HYDROGELS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; PEPTIDES; SELF ASSEMBLY; TISSUE; VECTORS; VIRUSES;

CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEMS; PROTEIN EXPRESSIONS; SELF-ASSEMBLING PEPTIDES; SPINAL CORD INJURIES (SCI); TISSUE ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS; TRANSDUCTION EFFICIENCY; TRANSFECTION EFFICIENCY; VIRAL VECTORS;

TISSUE REGENERATION;

EID: 84959507044     PISSN: 19980124     EISSN: 19980000     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-015-0946-0     Document Type: Article

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