Paracrine stimulation of keratinocytes in vitro and continuous delivery of epidermal growth factor to wounds in vivo by genetically modified fibroblasts transfected with a novel chimeric construct

In Vivo

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 201-208

  Rosenthal, Felicia M ^a,b   Cao, Lei ^a   Tanczos, Esther ^a   Kopp, Jürgen ^a   Andree, Christoph ^a   Bjorn Stark G ^a   Mertelsmann, Roland ^a   Kulmburg, Peter ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b Cellgenix GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

EGF; Fibroblasts; Gene therapy; Wound healing

Indexed keywords

EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; FIBRIN GLUE; GAMMA UROGASTRONE; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL CLONE; CELL STIMULATION; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CHIMERA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA TRANSFECTION; EXPRESSION VECTOR; FIBROBLAST; GENE FUSION; GENE TARGETING; GENE THERAPY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; IRRADIATION; KERATINOCYTE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SECRETION; TISSUE REPAIR; TRANSGENE; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 0030787051     PISSN: 0258851X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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