Calcium enhances the transfection potency of plasmid DNA-cationic liposome complexes

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Biomembranes

Volumn 1463, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 279-290

  Lam, Angela M I ^a   Cullis, Pieter R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b Inex Pharmaceuticals Corporation   (Canada)

Author keywords

Calcium; Cationic liposome; Plasmid DNA cationic lipid complex; Transfection

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; EGTAZIC ACID; LIPOSOME; PLASMID DNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL; CELL STRAIN BHK; COMPLEX FORMATION; DOT HYBRIDIZATION; ENDOCYTOSIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSGENE;

ANIMALS; CALCIUM; CARBON RADIOISOTOPES; CELL LINE; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; CRICETINAE; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; DRUG CARRIERS; EGTAZIC ACID; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HUMANS; LIPOSOMES; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; PHOSPHATIDYLETHANOLAMINES; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; TRANSFECTION; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0033968630     PISSN: 00052736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0005-2736(99)00219-9     Document Type: Article

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