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Fe3O4-PEI-RITC Magnetic Nanoparticles with Imaging and Gene Transfer Capability: Development of a Tool for Neural Cell Transplantation Therapies (2011)
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Yiu, H. H. P., Pickard, M. R., Olariu, C. I., Williams, S. R., Chari, D. M., & Rosseinsky, M. J. (2012). Fe3O4-PEI-RITC Magnetic Nanoparticles with Imaging and Gene Transfer Capability: Development of a Tool for Neural Cell Transplantation Therapies. Pharmaceutical Research, 29(5), 1328-1343. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11095-011-0632-1

Purpose To develop Fe3O4-PEI-RITC magnetic nanoparticles with multimodal MRI-fluorescence imaging and transfection capability, for use in neural cell replacement therapies. Methods The Fe3O4-PEI-RITC MNPs were synthesised through a multi-step ch... Read More about Fe3O4-PEI-RITC Magnetic Nanoparticles with Imaging and Gene Transfer Capability: Development of a Tool for Neural Cell Transplantation Therapies.

Magnetic Nanoparticle-Mediated Gene Transfer to Oligodendrocyte Precursor Cell Transplant Populations Is Enhanced by Magnetofection Strategies (2011)
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Jenkins, S. I., Pickard, M. R., Granger, N., & Chari, D. M. (2011). Magnetic Nanoparticle-Mediated Gene Transfer to Oligodendrocyte Precursor Cell Transplant Populations Is Enhanced by Magnetofection Strategies. ACS Nano, 5(8), 6527-6538. https://doi.org/10.1021/nn2018717

This study has tested the feasibility of using physical delivery methods, employing static and oscillating field “magnetofection” techniques, to enhance magnetic nanoparticle-mediated gene transfer to rat oligodendrocyte precursor cells derived for t... Read More about Magnetic Nanoparticle-Mediated Gene Transfer to Oligodendrocyte Precursor Cell Transplant Populations Is Enhanced by Magnetofection Strategies.

ApoE isoform-specific regulation of regeneration in the peripheral nervous system (2011)
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Comley, L. H., Fuller, H. R., Wishart, T. M., Mutsaers, C. A., Thomson, D., Wright, A. K., …Gillingwater, T. H. (2011). ApoE isoform-specific regulation of regeneration in the peripheral nervous system. Human molecular genetics, 20(12), 2406-2421. https://doi.org/10.1093/hmg/ddr147

Apolipoprotein E (apoE) is a 34 kDa glycoprotein with three distinct isoforms in the human population (apoE2, apoE3 and apoE4) known to play a major role in differentially influencing risk to, as well as outcome from, disease and injury in the centra... Read More about ApoE isoform-specific regulation of regeneration in the peripheral nervous system.