Emerging vaccine delivery systems for COVID-19: Functionalised silica nanoparticles offer a potentially safe and effective alternative delivery system for DNA/RNA vaccines and may be useful in the hunt for a COVID-19 vaccine

Drug Discov Today. 2020 Sep;25(9):1556-1558. doi: 10.1016/j.drudis.2020.06.020. Epub 2020 Jun 24.
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Publication types

  • Editorial

MeSH terms

  • Betacoronavirus / immunology*
  • COVID-19
  • COVID-19 Vaccines
  • Coronavirus Infections / prevention & control*
  • Drug Carriers / pharmacology
  • Drug Delivery Systems / methods*
  • Drug Development
  • Drug Discovery / methods
  • Humans
  • Nanoparticles / therapeutic use*
  • Oligonucleotides / pharmacology
  • Pandemics / prevention & control*
  • Pneumonia, Viral / prevention & control*
  • SARS-CoV-2
  • Silicon Dioxide / pharmacology*
  • Vaccines, DNA / pharmacology
  • Viral Vaccines / pharmacology*

Substances

  • COVID-19 Vaccines
  • Drug Carriers
  • Oligonucleotides
  • Vaccines, DNA
  • Viral Vaccines
  • Silicon Dioxide