Electroporation for gene transfer to skeletal muscles: Current status

BioDrugs

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 155-165

  McMahon, Julian M ^a   Wells, Dominic J ^a  

^a CHARING CROSS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOVIRUS VECTOR; CARDIOTROPHIN 1; DNA VACCINE; HYALURONIDASE; PLASMID DNA; RECOMBINANT DNA;

ARTERY; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; B CELL LYMPHOMA; BRAIN; CELL STRUCTURE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; CORNEA; DIABETES MELLITUS; ELECTRICAL PARAMETERS; ELECTROPHORESIS; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY; ELECTROPORATION; GENE DELIVERY SYSTEM; GENE TRANSFER; HUMAN; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; HUNTER SYNDROME; KIDNEY; LIVER; LUNG; METASTASIS; MUSCLE INJURY; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE; NONVIRAL GENE DELIVERY SYSTEM; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECRETION; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; RETINA; REVIEW; SARCOPLASMIC RETICULUM; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SKIN; SPINAL CORD; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SWINE; SYNOVIUM; TUMOR; VIRUS RECOMBINANT;

ANIMALS; ELECTRODES; ELECTROPORATION; GENE THERAPY; HUMANS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PLASMIDS; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 3042651120     PISSN: 11738804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/00063030-200418030-00002     Document Type: Review

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