High Ca2+-phosphate transfection efficiency enables single neuron gene analysis

Gene Therapy

Volumn 11, Issue 17, 2004, Pages 1303-1311

  Jiang, M ^a   Deng, L ^a   Chen, G ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Calcium phosphate transfection; Gene transfer; GFP; Hippocampal neuron; Microisland culture

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM PHOSPHATE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL CULTURE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HIPPOCAMPUS; NONHUMAN; PARTICLE SIZE; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; ANIMAL; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; METHODOLOGY; NERVE CELL; NEWBORN; PHYSIOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CALCIUM PHOSPHATES; CULTURE TECHNIQUES; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; HIPPOCAMPUS; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 4444354577     PISSN: 09697128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.gt.3302305     Document Type: Article

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