Electroporation: Theory and methods, perspectives for drug delivery, gene therapy and research

Acta Physiologica Scandinavica

Volumn 177, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 437-447

  Gehl, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Drug delivery; Electrochemotherapy; Electrogenetransfer; Electroporation; Genetherapy

Indexed keywords

BLEOMYCIN; CISPLATIN; DNA; DNA VACCINE;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; BIOSAFETY; BLOOD FLOW; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CELL PERMEABILIZATION; CELL SIZE; DNA TRANSFER; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTROCHEMOTHERAPY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROPORATION; GENE THERAPY; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEATING; HUMAN; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; MAMMAL CELL; MELANOMA; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; METASTASIS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; NONHUMAN; PERFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE RATE; REVIEW; SIDE EFFECT; SKIN; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; ST SEGMENT DEPRESSION; TECHNIQUE; TEMPERATURE; THEORY; TUMOR; VASOCONSTRICTION;

ANIMALS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CELL SIZE; DNA; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEMS; ELECTRODES; ELECTROPORATION; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEOPLASMS; SKIN; TEMPERATURE; TRANSFECTION; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

EID: 0037383050     PISSN: 00016772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-201X.2003.01093.x     Document Type: Review

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