Electroporation-mediated pain-killer gene therapy for mononeuropathic rats

Gene Therapy

Volumn 9, Issue 18, 2002, Pages 1247-1253

  Lin, C R ^a,b   Yang, L C ^b   Lee, T H ^b   Lee, C T ^b   Huang, H T ^a   Sun, W Z ^c   Cheng, J T ^a  

^a NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CHANG GUNG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Electroporation; Gene transfer; Neuropathic pain; Pro opiomelanocortin; Spinal cord; Western blot

Indexed keywords

BETA ENDORPHIN; NALOXONE; OPIATE; PLASMID DNA; PROOPIOMELANOCORTIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; ELECTROPORATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TRANSFER; IN VIVO STUDY; INJURY; MALE; NEUROPATHY; NONHUMAN; NONVIRAL GENE DELIVERY SYSTEM; NONVIRAL GENE THERAPY; PAIN; PAIN THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PULSE RATE; RAT; SPINAL CORD; TECHNIQUE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; ELECTROPORATION; GENE THERAPY; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; NALOXONE; NARCOTIC ANTAGONISTS; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PRO-OPIOMELANOCORTIN; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0036737749     PISSN: 09697128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.gt.3301790     Document Type: Article

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