“…The targeted delivery of the lipoplexes may be achieved through the addition of targeting moieties (e.g., ligands) into liposomes by direct formulation, with no covalent bond to any lipid (Seol et al, 2000); conjugated to helper lipid (Dauty et al, 2002), or connected directly to the cationic lipids (Kawakami et al, 2000a;Gaucheron et al, 2001c). For targeted lipoplexes, modified with a targeting moiety such as folate (Dauty et al, 2002), galactose (Kawakami et al, 2000a;Gaucheron et al, 2001c), mannose (Kawakami et al, 2000b), antibodies (Duan et al, 2008) and transferrin (Seol et al, 2000;Sakaguchi et al, 2008), the uptake can be receptor mediated and enhanced . Targeting of the folate receptor (FR) had received much attention in recent years, since the folate receptor is a tumor marker over expressed in large numbers of cancer cells, including cancers of the ovary, kidney, uterus, testis, brain, colon, and in addition, folic acid is a relatively small molecule (MW 441 Da), therefore, it has the advantages of being stable and nonimmunogenic compared to monoclonal antibodies (Kane et al, 1986), and still having a relatively high receptor affinity.…”