Overcoming the nuclear barrier: Cell cycle independent nonviral gene transfer with linear polyethylenimine or electroporation

Molecular Therapy

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 80-86

  Brunner, Sylvia ^a   Fürtbauer, Elke ^a   Sauer, Thomas ^a   Kursa, Malgorzata ^b   Wagner, Ernst ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b BOEHRINGER INGELHEIM RCV GMBH AND CO KG   (Austria)

Author keywords

Cell cycle; Electroporation; Gene transfer; Nonviral; Polyethylenimine

Indexed keywords

LIPOFECTAMINE; LUCIFERASE; POLYETHYLENEIMINE;

ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE G1 PHASE; CELL CYCLE G2 PHASE; CELL CYCLE S PHASE; CELL NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA TRANSFECTION; ELECTROPORATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HELA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NONVIRAL GENE DELIVERY SYSTEM; NUCLEAR IMPORT; REPORTER GENE;

EID: 0036157772     PISSN: 15250016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/mthe.2001.0509     Document Type: Article

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