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ArticleMolecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy2013

Polyethylenimine-modified pluronics (PCMs) improve morpholino oligomer delivery in cell culture and dystrophic mdx mice.

Mingxing Wang, Bo Wu, Peijuan Lu, Caryn Cloer, Jay D Tucker, Qilong Lu

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Article in Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.

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19 citing papers in PubMed, 32 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Mingxing WangDepartment of Neurology, McColl-Lockwood Laboratory for Muscular Dystrophy Research, Neuromuscular/ALS Center, Carolinas Medical Center, Charlotte, North Carolina 28231, USA.
Bo Wu
Peijuan Lu
Caryn Cloer
Jay D Tucker
Qilong Lu
Carolinas Medical Center · USUniversity of North Carolina at Charlotte · US

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We investigated a series of small-sized polyethylenimine (PEI, 0.8/1.2 k)-conjugated pluronic copolymers (PCMs) for their potential to enhance delivery of an antisense phosphorodiamidate morpholino oligomer (PMO) in vitro and in dystrophic mdx mice. PCM polymers containing pluronics of molecular weight (Mw) ranging 2-6 k, with hydrophilic-lipophilic balance (HLB) 7-23, significantly enhanced PMO-induced exon-skipping in a green fluorescent protein (GFP) reporter-based myoblast culture system. Application of optimized formulations of PCMs with PMO targeted to dystrophin exon 23 demonstrated a significant increase in exon-skipping efficiency in dystrophic mdx mice. Consistent with our observations in vitro, optimization of molecular size and the HLB of pluronics are important factors for PCMs to achieve enhanced PMO delivery in vivo. Observed cytotoxicity of the PCMs was lower than Endo-porter and PEI 25 k. Tissue toxicity of PCMs in muscle was not clearly detected with the concentrations used, indicating the potential of the PCMs as effective and safe PMO carriers for treating diseases such as muscular dystrophy.

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PoloxamerAnimalsBase SequenceCell LineExonsGenes, ReporterGreen Fluorescent ProteinsImmunohistochemistryInjections, IntramuscularMiceMice, Inbred mdxMorpholinosMyoblastsPolyethyleneiminePolymerase Chain ReactionGreen Fluorescent ProteinsMorpholinosPoloxamerPolyethyleneimine

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PMID23164938
PMCPMC3538317
OpenAlexW1974973675

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