Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology, Biology and Medicine
Volume 8, Issue 2 , Pages 167-175 , February 2012

Linear PEI nanoparticles: efficient pDNA/siRNA carriers in vitro and in vivo

  • Ritu Goyal, MPhil

      Affiliations

    • CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, Delhi University, Delhi, India
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  • Sushil K. Tripathi, MSc

      Affiliations

    • CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, Delhi University, Delhi, India
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  • Shilpa Tyagi, MSc

      Affiliations

    • CSIR-Indian Institute of Toxicology Research, Lucknow, India
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  • Anurag Sharma, MSc

      Affiliations

    • CSIR-Indian Institute of Toxicology Research, Lucknow, India
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  • K. Ravi Ram, PhD

      Affiliations

    • CSIR-Indian Institute of Toxicology Research, Lucknow, India
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  • Debapratim K. Chowdhuri, PhD

      Affiliations

    • CSIR-Indian Institute of Toxicology Research, Lucknow, India
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  • Yogeshwar Shukla, PhD

      Affiliations

    • CSIR-Indian Institute of Toxicology Research, Lucknow, India
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  • P. Kumar, PhD

      Affiliations

    • CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, Delhi University, Delhi, India
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  • Kailash C. Gupta, PhD

      Affiliations

    • CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, Delhi University, Delhi, India
    • CSIR-Indian Institute of Toxicology Research, Lucknow, India
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author: Indian Institute of Toxicology Research, Mahatma Gandhi Marg, Lucknow-226001, India.

Received 16 October 2010 ,Accepted 2 June 2011.

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 No conflict of interest was reported by the authors of this article.

 Financial support from the CSIR (NWP-035) and UGC-SRF (10-2(05)2006(i)-E.U.II) to RG is gratefully acknowledged.

PII: S1549-9634(11)00254-1

doi: 10.1016/j.nano.2011.06.001

Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology, Biology and Medicine
Volume 8, Issue 2 , Pages 167-175 , February 2012

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