Efficient transfection of dna or shrna vectors into neurons using magnetofection

Nature Protocols

Volumn 2, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 3090-3101

  Buerli, Thomas ^a   Pellegrino, Christophe ^b   Baer, Kristin ^c   Lardi Studler, Barbara ^a   Chudotvorova, Ilona ^b,d   Fritschy, Jean Marc ^a   Fuhrer, Christian ^a,d   Medina, Igor ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Turing Center for Living Systems CENTURI Aix Marseille University   (France)

^c SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; RNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; CYTOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE VECTOR; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GENETICS; HIPPOCAMPUS; MAGNETISM; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; NERVE CELL; RAT; RNA INTERFERENCE;

ANIMALS; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; DNA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC VECTORS; HIPPOCAMPUS; MAGNETICS; NEURONS; RATS; RNA; RNA INTERFERENCE; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 39149137234     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2007.445     Document Type: Article

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