Progress and prospects: Naked DNA gene transfer and therapy

Gene Therapy

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 453-458

  Herweijer, H ^a   Wolff, J A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Gene transfer; Hydrodynamic; Intravascular; Naked DNA; Nonviral

Indexed keywords

ANTISENSE OLIGODEOXYNUCLEOTIDE; BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 8; BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 9; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; ERYTHROPOIETIN; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 1; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS VACCINE; NAKED DNA; PLASMID DNA; VASCULOTROPIN;

CLINICAL TRIAL; DNA TRANSFER; DNA VECTOR; ELECTROPORATION; EXPRESSION VECTOR; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; KNOCKOUT GENE; LEG ISCHEMIA; LIVER; MUSCLE; NONHUMAN; NONVIRAL GENE DELIVERY SYSTEM; NONVIRAL GENE THERAPY; PERIPHERAL OCCLUSIVE ARTERY DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPORTER GENE; REVIEW; RODENT; TAIL;

ANIMALS; DNA; DOGS; ELECTROPORATION; GENE THERAPY; HAPLORHINI; HEPATOCYTES; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAMUSCULAR; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MICE; MODELS, ANIMAL; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASES; PLASMIDS; RATS; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; TRANSFECTION;

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 0037348748     PISSN: 09697128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.gt.3301983     Document Type: Review

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