Understanding intracellular transport processes pertinent to synthetic gene delivery via stochastic simulations and sensitivity analyses

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 92, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 831-846

  Dinh, Anh Tuan ^a   Pangarkar, Chinmay ^a   Theofanous, Theo ^a   Mitragotri, Samir ^a  

^a University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; POLYETHYLENEIMINE;

ARTICLE; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENE TARGETING; GENE VECTOR; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STATISTICS;

EID: 33846796031     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1529/biophysj.106.095521     Document Type: Article

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