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Med Hypotheses
; 73(1): 36-7, 2009 Jul.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-19269112
ABSTRACT
Nowadays, Ultrasound contrast agent (UCA) is not only a good contrast agent for ultrasonic imaging, but also an important tool for drug delivery. As a kind of UCA, lipofectamine has the shell with positive charge. It can encapsulate genes and also be adhered to cells because genes and cells are all with negative charge. With this feature, it plays an important role in transfection. Scavenger Receptor Class B Type I(SR-BI) is a HDL receptor thought to be the first step in the progress of cholesterol transport. In this way, SR-BI loaded UCA has great possibility to cure atherosclerosis plaque.