Structural and functional analysis of cationic transfection lipids: The hydrophobic domain

Gene Therapy

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 163-172

  Balasubramaniam, R P ^a   Bennett, M J ^a   Aberle, A M ^a   Malone, J G ^a   Nantz, M H ^a   Malone, R W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cationic liposomes; Cytofectin; Transfection

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; DIOLEOYLPHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE; DNA; LIPID; POLYNUCLEOTIDE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRONCHUS MUCOSA; CELL CULTURE; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; CHO CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; DNA TRANSFECTION; DRUG FORMULATION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; FIBROBLAST; GENE TARGETING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYDROPHOBICITY; LIPID COMPOSITION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

3T3 CELLS; ANIMALS; CALORIMETRY, DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING; CATIONS; CELL LINE; CELLS, CULTURED; CHO CELLS; CRICETINAE; DNA; DRUG CARRIERS; FATTY ACIDS, MONOUNSATURATED; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIPIDS; LIPOSOMES; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; PHOSPHATIDYLETHANOLAMINES; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; TRANSFECTION;

ANIMALIA; BRONCHUS; CRICETINAE; CRICETULUS GRISEUS;

EID: 0029887705     PISSN: 09697128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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