Expression of concern: Natural steroid-based cationic copolymers cholesterol/diosgenin- r-PDMAEMAs and their pDNA nanoplexes: impact of steroid structures and hydrophobic/hydrophilic ratios on pDNA delivery

Zhao Wang; Jingjing Sun; Mingrui Li; Ting Luo; Yulin Shen; Amin Cao; Ruilong Sheng

doi:10.1039/d3ra90019c

Expression of concern: Natural steroid-based cationic copolymers cholesterol/diosgenin- r-PDMAEMAs and their pDNA nanoplexes: impact of steroid structures and hydrophobic/hydrophilic ratios on pDNA delivery

RSC Adv. 2023 Mar 15;13(13):8718. doi: 10.1039/d3ra90019c. eCollection 2023 Mar 14.

Authors

Zhao Wang^{1

2

3}, Jingjing Sun^{1

3}, Mingrui Li³, Ting Luo³, Yulin Shen², Amin Cao³, Ruilong Sheng^{1

3

4}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Radiology, Shanghai Tenth People's Hospital, School of Medicine, Tongji University Shanghai 200072 China.
² School of Material Engineering, Jinling Institute of Technology Nanjing 211169 China.
³ CAS Key Laboratory of Synthetic and Self-assembly Chemistry for Organic Functional Molecules, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences 345 Lingling Road Shanghai 200032 China.
⁴ CQM-Centro de Quimica da Madeira, Universidade da Madeira, Campus da Penteada Funchal Madeira 9000-390 Portugal ruilong.sheng@staff.uma.pt.

Abstract

Expression of concern for 'Natural steroid-based cationic copolymers cholesterol/diosgenin-r-PDMAEMAs and their pDNA nanoplexes: impact of steroid structures and hydrophobic/hydrophilic ratios on pDNA delivery' by Zhao Wang et al., RSC Adv., 2021, 11, 19450-19460, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/D1RA00223F.

Publication types

Expression of Concern