The use of low-molecular-weight PEIs as gene carriers in the monkey fibroblastoma and rabbit smooth muscle cell cultures

Journal of Gene Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 205-214

  Lampela, Pasi ^a   Räisänen, Johanna ^a   Männistö, Pekka T ^a   Ylä Herttuala, Seppo ^a   Raasmaja, Atso ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Cationic liposome; Gene transfection; Non viral vector; Polyethylenimine

Indexed keywords

3 (4,5 DIMETHYL 2 THIAZOLYL) 2,5 DIPHENYLTETRAZOLIUM BROMIDE; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; LIPOSOME; PLASMID VECTOR; POLYETHYLENEIMINE DERIVATIVE; CATION; COLORING AGENT; DNA; TETRAZOLIUM; THIAZOLE DERIVATIVE; THIAZOLYL BLUE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUOROMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HISTOCHEMISTRY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; NONVIRAL GENE DELIVERY SYSTEM; NONVIRAL GENE THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; REPORTER GENE; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; DOSE RESPONSE; FIBROBLAST; GENE TRANSFER; GENE VECTOR; HAPLORHINI; METABOLISM; NEOPLASM; PATHOLOGY; SMOOTH MUSCLE;

ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

ANIMALS; CATIONS; CELLS, CULTURED; COLORING AGENTS; DNA; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FIBROBLASTS; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; GENETIC VECTORS; HAPLORHINI; LIPOSOMES; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; NEOPLASMS; RABBITS; TETRAZOLIUM SALTS; THIAZOLES; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 0036511891     PISSN: 1099498X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jgm.245     Document Type: Article

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