Glycerol enhancement of ligand-polylysine/DNA transfection

BioTechniques

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 905-913

  Zauner, W ^c   Kichler, A ^a   Schmidt, W ^c   Sinski, A ^b   Wagner, E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b BOEHRINGER INGELHEIM RCV GMBH AND CO KG   (Austria)

^c RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; GLYCEROL; INTERLEUKIN 2; LUCIFERASE; POLYLYSINE;

ARTICLE; CELL LINE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA TRANSFECTION; FIBROBLAST; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TRANSFER; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PLASMID;

EID: 0029984095     PISSN: 07366205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2144/96205rr04     Document Type: Article

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