Design and development of polymers for gene delivery
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- 1 July 2005
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Springer Nature in Nature Reviews Drug Discovery
- Vol. 4 (7) , 581-593
- https://doi.org/10.1038/nrd1775
Abstract
The lack of safe and efficient gene-delivery methods is a limiting obstacle to human gene therapy. Synthetic gene-delivery agents, although safer than recombinant viruses, generally do not possess the required efficacy. In recent years, a variety of effective polymers have been designed specifically for gene delivery, and much has been learned about their structure-function relationships. With the growing understanding of polymer gene-delivery mechanisms and continued efforts of creative polymer chemists, it is likely that polymer-based gene-delivery systems will become an important tool for human gene therapy.Keywords
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