Prenatal orogastric gene delivery results in transduction of the small bowel in the fetal rabbit

Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 323-327

  Wu, Ying ^a   Liu, Jing ^a   Woo, Savio ^a   Finegold, Milton J ^a   Brandt, Mary L ^a,b  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b TEXAS CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Fetal gene delivery; Gastrointestinal genetic disease; Gene therapy

Indexed keywords

TRANSMEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE REGULATOR; VIRUS VECTOR;

ADENOVIRUS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL LABELING; CESAREAN SECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FETUS; FETUS WASTAGE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENE TARGETING; GENE THERAPY; GENETIC TRANSDUCTION; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MECONIUM ILEUS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; REPORTER GENE; SMALL INTESTINE; STOMACH EPITHELIUM;

EID: 0033428380     PISSN: 10153837     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000020950     Document Type: Article

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