A Plasmid-Based Self-Amplifying Sindbis Virus Vector

Human Gene Therapy

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 1995, Pages 1161-1167

  Herweijer, Hans ^a   Latendresse, Jeffrey S ^a   Williams, Phillip ^a   Zhang, Guofeng ^a   Danko, Istvan ^a   Schlesinger, Sondra ^b   Wolff, Jon A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LUCIFERASE; PLASMID DNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FIBROBLAST; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; GENE THERAPY; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; MOUSE; MYOBLAST; MYOTUBE; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; QUADRICEPS FEMORIS MUSCLE; REPORTER GENE; RNA VIRUS; SINDBIS VIRUS; TRANSGENE;

3T3 CELLS; ANIMAL; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CYTOPLASM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, REPORTER; GENETIC VECTORS; LUCIFERASE; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUSCLES; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RNA, MESSENGER; SARCOMA VIRUSES, AVIAN; SINDBIS VIRUS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TRANSFECTION; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 0028982231     PISSN: 10430342     EISSN: 15577422     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/hum.1995.6.9-1161     Document Type: Article

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