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Efficient Nonviral Gene Therapy Using Folate-Targeted Chitosan-DNA Nanoparticles In Vitro

Figure 3

Distribution function of nanoparticles sizes (diameter in nm). (1) Ch5-β-gal: 1 1 4 . 2 7 ± 2 0 . 0 8  nm; (2) Ch5-PEG-FA-β-gal: 1 5 0 . 0 3 ± 9 . 7 6  nm; (3) Ch5-GFP: 2 2 3 . 8 3 ± 1 1 . 5 4  nm; (4) Ch5-PEG-FA-GFP: 2 7 8 ± 2 7 . 2 2  nm; (5) Ch25-β-gal: 1 2 7 . 6 7 ± 1 6 . 2 1  nm; (6) Ch25-PEG-FA-β-gal: 1 3 4 . 8 4 ± 1 4 . 1 3  nm; (7) Ch25-GFP: 1 5 1 . 4 3 ± 9 . 3 5  nm; (8) Ch25-PEG-FA-GFP: 2 0 4 . 3 3 ± 5 . 9 1  nm; (9) Ch50-β-gal: 1 1 1 . 9 4 ± 2 0 . 7 5  nm; (10) Ch50-PEG-FA-β-gal: 2 4 7 . 3 4 ± 1 8 . 3 3  nm; (11) Ch50-GFP: 1 6 0 . 2 1 ± 6 . 8 2  nm; (12) Ch50-PEG-FA-GFP: 3 0 2 . 0 8 ± 3 4 . 1 3  nm ( 𝑃 < 0 . 0 5 , 𝑛 = 5 ).
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