Feasibility of retroviral vector-mediated in utero gene transfer to the fetal rabbit

Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 485-493

  Moreno, Rafael ^a   Rosal, Marta ^b   Cabero, Lluis ^c   Gratacós, Eduard ^c   Aran, Josep M ^a  

^a HOSPITAL DURAN I REYNALS   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI VALL D HEBRON   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL MATERNO INFANTIL VALL D HEBRON   (Spain)

Author keywords

Fetal rabbit; LacZ gene; PCR; Retroviral vector; Vesicular stomatitis virus G pseudotype

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; RETROVIRUS VECTOR;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA ISOLATION; EXPRESSION VECTOR; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FETUS; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TRANSFER; HEART; HISTOCHEMISTRY; LIVER; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RABBIT; SURVIVAL RATE; VESICULAR STOMATITIS VIRUS;

ANIMALS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; FETUS; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; GENETIC VECTORS; LIVER; MODELS, ANIMAL; PERITONEAL CAVITY; PREGNANCY; RABBITS; RETROVIRIDAE;

EID: 27644547691     PISSN: 10153837     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000088036     Document Type: Article

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