Improvement of in vivo transfer of plasmid DNA in muscle: Comparison of electroporation versus ultrasound

Drug Delivery

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 273-277

  Kusumanto, Yoka H ^a   Mulder, Nanno H ^a   Dam, Wendy A ^a   Losen, Mario H ^b   Meijer, Coby ^a   Hospers, Geke A P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Electroporation; Mouse Model; Muscle; Plasmid DNA; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; PLASMID DNA; PROTEIN P53;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA TRANSFER; ELECTROPORATION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; IN VIVO STUDY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKELETAL MUSCLE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TRANSGENE; ULTRASOUND; VIRAL GENE DELIVERY SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; DNA; ELECTROPORATION; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INJECTIONS, INTRAMUSCULAR; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MUSCLE FIBERS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PLASMIDS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TRANSFECTION; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEIN P53; ULTRASONICS;

EID: 34347390808     PISSN: 10717544     EISSN: 15210464     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10717540601098807     Document Type: Article

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