癌治療における効果的な遺伝子静止のためのデンドリマー媒介の二重標的型siRNA伝達システム

Yiwen Dong1, Tianzhu Yu2, Ling Ding2

  • 1State Key Laboratory of Natural Medicines and Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Drug Discovery for Metabolic Diseases, Center of Drug Discovery, Center of Advanced Pharmaceutics and Biomaterials , China Pharmaceutical University , 24 Tong Jia Xiang , 210009 Nanjing , People's Republic of China.

まとめ

この研究は,がん細胞への標的小型の干渉RNA (siRNA) 配送のための新しいアンフィフィリックデンドリマーを導入します. このシステムは,強化された遺伝子静止と有力な抗がん活性を示し,有毒性が観察されず,RNAiベースのがん治療のための有望な非ウイルスベクターを提供します.

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