Polyethylenimine (PEI) is a simple, inexpensive and effective reagent for condensing and linking plasmid DNA to adenovirus for gene delivery

Gene Therapy

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 773-782

  Baker, A ^a   Saltik, M ^a   Lehrmann, H ^a   Killisch, I ^a   Mautner, V ^b   Lamm, G ^a   Christofori, G ^a   Gotten, M ^a  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

DNA delivery; Synthetic polycations; Transfection; Virus entry

Indexed keywords

PLASMID DNA; POLYCATION;

ADENOVIRUS; ARTICLE; DNA TRANSFECTION; GENE TARGETING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADENOVIRIDAE; DNA VIRUSES;

EID: 0030768650     PISSN: 09697128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.gt.3300471     Document Type: Article

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