Nonviral vectors for gene delivery

MA Mintzer, EE Simanek - Chemical reviews, 2009 - ACS Publications
Gene therapy has gained significant attention over the past two decades as a potential
method for treating genetic disorders such as severe combined immunodeficiency, 1 cystic …

Michael addition reactions in macromolecular design for emerging technologies

BD Mather, K Viswanathan, KM Miller… - Progress in Polymer …, 2006 - Elsevier
The Michael addition reaction is a versatile synthetic methodology for the efficient coupling
of electron poor olefins with a vast array of nucleophiles. This review outlines the role of the …

Dendrimers:: Relationship between structure and biocompatibility in vitro, and preliminary studies on the biodistribution of 125I-labelled polyamidoamine dendrimers …

N Malik, R Wiwattanapatapee, R Klopsch… - Journal of Controlled …, 2000 - Elsevier
Dendrimers are highly branched macromolecules of low polydispersity that provide many
exciting opportunities for design of novel drug-carriers, gene delivery systems and imaging …

Role of integrated cancer nanomedicine in overcoming drug resistance

AK Iyer, A Singh, S Ganta, MM Amiji - Advanced drug delivery reviews, 2013 - Elsevier
Cancer remains a major killer of mankind. Failure of conventional chemotherapy has
resulted in recurrence and development of virulent multi drug resistant (MDR) phenotypes …

Current status of pH-sensitive liposomes in drug delivery

DC Drummond, M Zignani, JC Leroux - Progress in lipid research, 2000 - Elsevier
Liposomes are being increasingly utilized to deliver drugs, enzymes, antisense
oligonucleotides, and genes to various therapeutic targets. Liposome-mediated delivery of …

A new pH-responsive and glutathione-reactive, endosomal membrane-disruptive polymeric carrier for intracellular delivery of biomolecular drugs

V Bulmus, M Woodward, L Lin, N Murthy… - Journal of Controlled …, 2003 - Elsevier
In this study, we have designed, synthesized and characterized a novel pH-responsive
polymeric carrier for the enhanced cytoplasmic delivery of enzyme susceptible drugs, such …

pH-Responsive Poly(styrene-alt-maleic anhydride) Alkylamide Copolymers for Intracellular Drug Delivery

SM Henry, MEH El-Sayed, CM Pirie… - …, 2006 - ACS Publications
Many macromolecular therapeutics such as peptides, proteins, antisense
oligodeoxynucleotides (ASODN), and short interfering RNA (siRNA) are active only in the …

Bioinspired pH-responsive polymers for the intracellular delivery of biomolecular drugs

N Murthy, J Campbell, N Fausto, AS Hoffman… - Bioconjugate …, 2003 - ACS Publications
The biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries have developed a wide variety of potential
therapeutics based on the molecules of biology: DNA, RNA, and proteins. While these …

Poly (amido‐amine) s: Biomedical Applications

P Ferruti, MA Marchisio… - Macromolecular Rapid …, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Poly (amido‐amine) s (PAAs) are synthetic tert‐amino polymers obtained by
stepwise polyaddition of primary or secondary aliphatic amines to bis (acrylamide) s. Linear …

Design and synthesis of pH-responsive polymeric carriers that target uptake and enhance the intracellular delivery of oligonucleotides

N Murthy, J Campbell, N Fausto, AS Hoffman… - Journal of Controlled …, 2003 - Elsevier
The delivery of biomolecular therapeutics that function intracellularly remains a significant
challenge in the field of biotechnology. In this report, a new family of polymeric drug carriers …