Improved lipid-mediated gene transfer in C6 glioma cells and primary glial cells using FuGene(TM)

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 92, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 145-152

  Wiesenhofer, Bettina ^a   Kaufmann, Walter A ^a   Humpel, Christian ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b Clinic of Psychiatry   (Austria)

Author keywords

Astroyctes; Beta galactosidase; DNA; Gene expression; Gene therapy; Liposomes

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; DNA; FUGENE; LIPID; LIPOFECTAMINE; LIPOSOME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BRAIN PROTECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE THERAPY; GENE TRANSFER; GLIOMA CELL; NERVE DEGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; DNA; ENDOTOXINS; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; GLIOMA; LIPOSOMES; NEUROGLIA; RATS; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0032746378     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-0270(99)00108-9     Document Type: Article

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