Semliki forest virus and sindbis virus vectors

Current Protocols in Human Genetics

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 12.2.1-12.2.23

  Ehrengruber, Markus U ^a   Lundstrom, Kenneth ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Regulou Inc   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL LINE; GENE VECTOR; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GENETICS; HAMSTER; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MEDICAL GENETICS; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASMID; RAT; REPLICON; SEMLIKI FOREST ALPHAVIRUS; SINDBIS VIRUS; TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUE; VIROLOGY; VIRUS ASSEMBLY;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CRICETINAE; GENETIC VECTORS; GENETICS, MEDICAL; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; NEURONS; PLASMIDS; RATS; REPLICON; SEMLIKI FOREST VIRUS; SINDBIS VIRUS; TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUES; TRANSFECTION; VIRUS ASSEMBLY;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 44049098547     PISSN: 19348266     EISSN: 19348258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/0471142905.hg1202s33     Document Type: Note

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