Fibroblasts show more potential as target cells than keratinocytes in COL7A1 gene therapy of dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa

Journal of Investigative Dermatology

Volumn 126, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 766-772

  Goto, Maki ^a   Sawamura, Daisuke ^a   Ito, Kei ^a   Abe, Masataka ^a   Nishie, Wataru ^a   Sakai, Kaori ^a   Shibaki, Akihiko ^a   Akiyama, Masashi ^a   Shimizu, Hiroshi ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN TYPE 7; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; DERMIS; DERMOEPIDERMAL JUNCTION; EPIDERMIS; EPIDERMOLYSIS BULLOSA DYSTROPHICA; EXPERIMENTATION; FIBROBLAST; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE THERAPY; GENE TRANSFER; HUMAN; KERATINOCYTE; NONHUMAN; PATIENT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT STRAIN; RETROVIRUS VECTOR; SKIN CELL; SKIN GRAFT; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VESICULAR STOMATITIS VIRUS;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; COLLAGEN TYPE VII; EPIDERMIS; EPIDERMOLYSIS BULLOSA DYSTROPHICA; FIBROBLASTS; GENE THERAPY; GENETIC VECTORS; HUMANS; KERATINOCYTES; MICE; RATS; RETROVIRIDAE; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 33645020760     PISSN: 0022202X     EISSN: 15231747     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.jid.5700117     Document Type: Article

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