Electroporation of primary neural cultures: A simple method for directed gene transfer in vitro

Histochemistry and Cell Biology

Volumn 118, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 501-506

  Mertz, Kirsten D ^b,c   Weisheit, Gunnar ^b   Schilling, Karl ^b   Lüers, Georg H ^a,b  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Directed gene transfer; Electroporation; Glia; Granule cells; Neurons

Indexed keywords

CELL MARKER; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; PHOTOPROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CELL ISOLATION; CELL SUBPOPULATION; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPORATION; EMBRYO CELL; FEMALE; FETUS; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GRANULE CELL; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL CULTURE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REPORTER GENE; STELLATE CELL; TARGET CELL; ANIMAL; C3H MOUSE; C57BL MOUSE; CELL CULTURE; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PLASMID; TIME;

ANIMALIA; EPICOCCUM; MURINAE;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; CEREBELLUM; ELECTROPORATION; FEMALE; FETUS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEURONS; PLASMIDS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; TIME FACTORS; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 0012186374     PISSN: 09486143     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00418-002-0473-4     Document Type: Article

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