Autotransplantation in mdx mice of mdx myoblasts genetically corrected by an HSV-1 amplicon vector

Cell Transplantation

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 759-767

  Bujold, Mathieu ^a   Caron, Nicolas ^a   Camiran, Goeffrey ^a   Mukherjee, Santwana ^b   Allen, Paul D ^b   Tremblay, Jacques P ^a   Wang, Yaming ^b  

^a LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Autologous transplantation; Duchene muscular dystrophy (DMD); Dystrophin positive fibers; Full length dystrophin cDNA; HSV 1 amplicons

Indexed keywords

BASIC FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DIHYDROFOLATE REDUCTASE; DYSTROPHIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; NEOMYCIN; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; SOMATOMEDIN C; TACROLIMUS; VIRUS DNA; VIRUS VECTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; DUCHENNE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; GENETIC TRANSDUCTION; GRAFT REJECTION; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 1; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; MOUSE; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; MYOBLAST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

ANIMALIA; CUCUMBER MOSAIC VIRUS; DNA VIRUSES; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 1; SIMPLEXVIRUS;

EID: 0036980730     PISSN: 09636897     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3727/000000002783985297     Document Type: Article

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