The majority of keratinocytes incorporate intradermally injected plasmid DNA regardless of size but only a small proportion of cells can express the gene product

Journal of Investigative Dermatology

Volumn 118, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 967-971

  Sawamura, Daisuke ^a   Yasukawa, Kana ^a   Kodama, Kazuo ^a   Yokota, Koichi ^a   Sato Matsumura, Kazuko C ^a   Toshihiro, Tanaka ^b   Shimizu, Hiroshi ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b TENRI HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gene therapy; Naked DNA; Type VII collagen

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN TYPE 4; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GENE PRODUCT; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 6; PLASMID DNA; RHODAMINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DNA STRUCTURE; DNA TRANSFER; EPIDERMIS CELL; FLUORESCENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HUMAN; KERATINOCYTE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TRANSGENE;

EID: 0036283620     PISSN: 0022202X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1747.2002.01756.x     Document Type: Article

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