Shuttle of lentiviral vectors via transplanted cells in vivo

Gene Therapy

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 67-74

  Blomer U ^a,b   Gruh, I ^b   Witschel, H ^b   Haverich, A ^b   Martin, U ^b  

^a Neurosurgery Spine Surgery   (Germany)

^b HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cell transplantation; Gene transfer; Lentiviral vector

Indexed keywords

LENTIVIRUS VECTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CELL BASED GENE THERAPY; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CELL SUSPENSION; CELL TRANSFER; COCULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EX VIVO STUDY; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SHUTTLE VECTOR; STEM CELL; TARGET CELL; VIRAL CONTAMINATION; VIRAL GENE THERAPY; VIRUS PARTICLE; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; FIBROBLASTS; GENE THERAPY; GENETIC VECTORS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LENTIVIRUS; LENTIVIRUS INFECTIONS; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TRANSDUCTION, GENETIC;

EID: 11844292744     PISSN: 09697128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.gt.3302384     Document Type: Article

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