A novel method to assay proteins in blood plasma after intravenous injection of plasmid DNA

Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 202, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 155-161

  Hanawa, Haruo ^a   Watanabe, Ritsuo ^a   Hayashi, Manabu ^a   Yoshida, Tsuyoshi ^a   Abe, Satoru ^a   Komura, Satoru ^a   Liu, Hui ^a   Elnaggar, Raafat ^a   Chang, He ^a   Okura, Yuji ^a   Kato, Kiminori ^a   Kodama, Makoto ^a   Maruyama, Hiroki ^a   Miyazaki, Junichi ^b   Aizawa, Yoshifusa ^a  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gene therapy; Glucagon; pCAGGS; Radioimmoassay

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON RECEPTOR; GLUCAGON; IMMUNOGLOBULIN FC FRAGMENT; INTERLEUKIN 8; PLASMID DNA; SUGAR;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CHIMERA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; DRUG DISTRIBUTION; DRUG LABELING; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GENE THERAPY; GENETIC CODE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HYDRODYNAMICS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RAT; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ANIMALS; BLOOD GLUCOSE; GENE THERAPY; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; GLUCAGON; HUMANS; IMMUNOASSAY; INTERLEUKIN-8; MALE; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PLASMIDS; PROTEINS; RATS; RECEPTORS, INTERFERON; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS;

EID: 11144358199     PISSN: 00408727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1620/tjem.202.155     Document Type: Article

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