“…Among the polymers commonly employed as non-viral si-RNA delivery systems, chitosan (Ma et al, 2014;Ozpolat et al, 2014;Xie et al, 2014), poly(ethylene imine) (Urban-Klein et al, 2005;Nabzdyk et al, 2014), poly(amidoamine) dendrimers (Patil et al, 2008;Conti et al, 2014) and poly(L-lysine) (Inoue et al, 2008;Kodama et al, 2014) have been extensively investigated.…”