Table 5.

Evaluation of encapsulated nucleic acids.

Objective	Method	Ref.
RNA or DNA quantification	UV-Vis spectrophotometry	[93,96,97]
	Fluorescence spectrophotometry	[79]
	Target-specific fluorescence detection	[93,96]
	Capillary electrophoresis separation of fluorescently labelled nucleic acids	[93,96]
	qRT-PCR	[97,98,99]
	Gel electrophoresis on 1% agarose gel	[87]
miRNA expression profiles	Provides 100% coverage of the miRNAs in the miRBase database	[96]

qRT-PCR—Real-time polymerase chain reaction.