Abstract
Polyamine polymers are among the commonest polymers used in biomedicine. Among polyamine polymers, polyethylenimine (PEI) may be used as an efficient delivery vehicle for nucleic acids (DNA, RNA, etc.) or employed as a versatile imaging probe in vivo. In this chapter, the preparation of various PEI bioconjugates will be fully explained and discussed.
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The Ministero della Salute and MIUR (Ministero dell’Istruzione, dell’Università e della Ricerca) are gratefully acknowledged for providing financial support for this work. FP also thanks Ernst H.K. Stelzer for support and many interesting discussions.
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Masotti, A., Pampaloni, F. (2011). Polyethylenimine Bioconjugates for Imaging and DNA Delivery In Vivo. In: Mark, S. (eds) Bioconjugation Protocols. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 751. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-61779-151-2_10
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