Genetic vaccines: Strategies for optimization

Pharmaceutical Research

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 661-670

  Gregoriadis, Gregory ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cationic lipids; DNA vaccines; Gene gun; Genetic immunization; Liposomes; Nucleic acids

Indexed keywords

DNA VACCINE; LIPOSOME; RECOMBINANT DNA;

BIOLISTIC TRANSFORMATION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG UPTAKE; GENE TARGETING; GENE THERAPY; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; VACCINATION;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; ANTIGENS, VIRAL; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION; INJECTIONS, INTRAMUSCULAR; LIPOSOMES; MACACA MULATTA; MICE; PLASMIDS; TRANSFECTION; VACCINES, DNA;

EID: 0031802584     PISSN: 07248741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1011950415325     Document Type: Review

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