Chitosan-pDNA nanoparticle characteristics determine the transfection efficacy of gene delivery to human mesenchymal stem cells

Artificial Cells, Nanomedicine and Biotechnology

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 376-384

  Malakooty Poor, Elham ^a,b   Baghaban Eslaminejad, Mohamadreza ^a   Gheibi, Nematollah ^b   Bagheri, Fatemeh ^a   Atyabi, Fatemeh ^c  

^a ROYAN INSTITUTE FOR REPRODUCTIVE BIOMEDICINE   (Iran)

^b QAZVIN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Chitosan; Gene transfection; Mesenchymal stem cells; Nanoparticle; Plasmid DNA

Indexed keywords

BIOMOLECULES; BONE; CELL CULTURE; CELLS; CHITIN; CHITOSAN; CYTOLOGY; CYTOTOXICITY; DNA; FLOWCHARTING; GENE TRANSFER; GENES; LIPOSOMES; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NANOPARTICLES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STEM CELLS; ZETA POTENTIAL;

GENE TRANSFECTION; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HUMAN BONE MARROW DERIVED MESENCHYMAL STEM CELLS; HUMAN MESENCHYMAL STEM CELLS; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL; NANOPARTICLE MORPHOLOGY; PLASMID DNA; TRANSFECTION EFFICIENCY;

SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

CHITOSAN NANOPARTICLE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; LIPOFECTAMINE; NAKED DNA; PLASMID DNA;

AGAR GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW DERIVED MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL ISOLATION; CELL VIABILITY; COACERVATION; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FIBROBLAST; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MTT ASSAY; PH; PLASMID; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ZETA POTENTIAL;

EID: 84964304526     PISSN: 21691401     EISSN: 2169141X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/21691401.2013.832685     Document Type: Article

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