In recent years, gene therapy has made tremendous progress in the development of disease treatment. Among them, siRNA offers specificity silencing, ease synthesis, and short period, been intensively studied worldwide. However, as hydrophilic polyanion is easily degraded vivo poorly taken up into cells so, benefits its powerful silencing ability will not be realized until better carriers are dev...

Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is the most common and deadly form of interstitial lung disease. Osteopontin (OPN), a matricellular protein with proinflammatory profibrotic properties, plays major role in several fibrotic diseases, including IPF; OPN highly upregulated patients’ samples. In this study, we knocked down bleomycin (BLM)-induced (PF) mouse model using small interfering RNA (siR...

Multiple gene silencing is being required to target and tangle metabolic pathways in eukaryotes and researchers have to develop a subtle method for construction of RNA interference (RNAi) cassettes. Although, several vectors have been developed due to different screening and cloning strategies but still some potential limitations remain to be dissolved. Here, we worked out a simple cloning stra...

The formation of electrostatic interactions between polyanionic siRNA and polycations gives an easy access to the colloidal particles capable delivering in vitro or vivo. Among used for delivery, chitosan occupies a special place due its unique physicochemical biological properties. In this chapter we describe fundamental practical aspects complexes siRNA. basis complexation oppositely charged ...

efg1 transcription factor is believed to be the main regulator of hyphal formation under many different conditions. in addition, it is responsible for positive regulation of the expression of several hyphal-specific genes. sap5, which encodes secreted aspartic proteinase, is one of the mentioned genes and is crucial for pathogenicity properties. in the present work we have established the exper...

Background: Bone marrow stromal cells (BMSC) have been successfully employed for movement deficit recovery in spinal cord injury (SCI) rat models. One of the unsettled problems in cell transplantation is the relative high proportion of cell death, specifically after neural differentiation. According to our previous studies, p75 receptor, known as the death receptor, is only expressed in BMSC in...

The purpose of this study was to measure daily and seasonal evapotranspiration and daily crop coefficient of two common varieties of sunflower (Sirna and Euroflor) via drip-tape irrigation system. For this purpose, the sunflower water use was determined by daily monitoring of soil moisture at the depths of 10, 20, 30, 40 and 60 cm, and the crop evapotranspiration (ETC) was measured using volume...

Objective(s): siRNA may be a very promising tool for treatment of various diseases especially in cancer therapy due to high specificity. One of the main hurdles applications of siRNAs in vivo is optimization of the delivery strategy, especially the carrier systems. The aim of this study was to optimize siRNA delivery into suspended erythroleukemic cell line K562. Materials and Methods: We appli...

background: breast cancer is the most common diagnosed cancer among women in the world. snail1 plays a role in the development of the invasive phenotypes of cancer, neural cell differentiation, cell division and apoptosis in tumor cells. traces of snail1 in metastasis of breast cancer to bone are observed. the aim of this study was to investigate the effect of specific snail1 sirnas on the prol...