In vitro and in vivo transfection of plasmid DNA in the Dunning prostate tumor R3327-AT1 is enhanced by focused ultrasound

Gene Therapy

Volumn 7, Issue 17, 2000, Pages 1516-1525

  Huber, P E ^a,b,c   Pfisterer, P ^a,b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dunning prostate tumor; Focused ultrasound; Gene therapy; Nonviral gene transfer; Ultrasound therapy

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; LUCIFERASE; PLASMID DNA;

AGED; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CELL STRAIN 3T3; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA TRANSFECTION; DNA TRANSFER; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FIBROBLAST CULTURE; GENE TARGETING; GENE THERAPY; HELA CELL; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; MELANOMA CELL; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE TUMOR; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; REPORTER GENE; TARGET CELL; ULTRASOUND;

ANIMALS; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GENE THERAPY; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRALESIONAL; LUCIFERASES; MALE; PLASMIDS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; TRANSFECTION; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; ULTRASONICS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0033795347     PISSN: 09697128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.gt.3301242     Document Type: Article

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