Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Gene Delivery for Revascularization in Transplanted Human Islets

Pharmaceutical Research

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 15-25

  Narang, Ajit S ^a   Cheng, Kun ^a   Henry, James ^a   Zhang, Chunxiang ^a   Sabek, Omaima ^a   Fraga, Daniel ^a   Kotb, Malak ^a   Gaber, A Osama ^a   Mahato, Ram I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Bicistronic vector; Cationic liposomes; Human islets; Immunohistochemistry; Real time RT PCR; Transfection

Indexed keywords

CD31 ANTIGEN; DNA; GLUCOSE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; INSULIN; INSULIN ANTIBODY; LIPOFECTAMINE; VASCULOTROPIN; VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL SECRETION; CELL STIMULATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CISTRON; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DELIVERY SYSTEM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE VECTOR; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYPOXIA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INSULIN RELEASE; KIDNEY CAPSULE; LEUKEMIA CELL LINE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PANCREAS ISLET TRANSPLANTATION; PLASMID; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REVASCULARIZATION; STAINING; TOXICITY;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEMS; GENE THERAPY; GENETIC VECTORS; HUMANS; ISLETS OF LANGERHANS; ISLETS OF LANGERHANS TRANSPLANTATION; JURKAT CELLS; KIDNEY CORTEX; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED NOD; MICE, SCID; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; RATS; TRANSFECTION; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A;

EID: 1642498307     PISSN: 07248741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:PHAM.0000012147.52900.b8     Document Type: Article

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