Lipoplex Structures and Their Distinct Cellular Pathways

Advances in Genetics

Volumn 53, Issue , 2005, Pages 119-155

  Ewert, Kai ^a   Evans, Heather M ^a   Ahmad, Ayesha ^a   Slack, Nelle L ^a   Lin, Alison J ^a   Martin Herranz, Ana ^a   Safinya, Cyrus R ^a  

^a University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; LIPOSOME; LUCIFERASE; POLYAMINE;

CELL MEMBRANE; CHEMISTRY; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; GENE THERAPY; GENE TRANSFER; GENE VECTOR; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; REVIEW; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

BIOGENIC POLYAMINES; CELL MEMBRANE; DNA; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; GENE THERAPY; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; GENETIC VECTORS; LIPOSOMES; LUCIFERASES; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 33645236403     PISSN: 00652660     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0065-2660(05)53005-0     Document Type: Review

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