In vivo somatic delivery of plasmid DNA and retrograde transport to obtain cell-specific gene expression in the central nervous system

Journal of Neurochemistry

Volumn 90, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1445-1452

  Morris, Renée ^a   Morgan, Branwen S ^a,b   Lewis, Trevor M ^a   Pierce, Kerrie D ^a   Pisano, Anthony ^a   Schofield, Peter R ^a,b  

^a GARVAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Glycine receptor and promoter; In vivo gene delivery; Motor neurones; Neurone specific gene expression; Plasmid DNA; Retrograde transport

Indexed keywords

GLYCINE RECEPTOR; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; NAKED DNA; PLASMID DNA;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM; CELL BASED GENE THERAPY; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA TRANSFER; GENE; GENE DELIVERY SYSTEM; GENE EXPRESSION; GLYCINE RECEPTOR ALPHA1 GENE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYPOGLOSSAL NERVE; IN VIVO STUDY; INSULA; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOTONEURON; MOUSE; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARABRACHIAL NUCLEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RECEPTOR DENSITY; RETROGRADE NERVE FIBER TRANSPORT; TRANSGENE;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CELL LINE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA; EMBRYO; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; GENETIC VECTORS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; HUMANS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEURONS; PHOSPHOPYRUVATE HYDRATASE; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RECEPTORS, GLYCINE; TONGUE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 4544379387     PISSN: 00223042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-4159.2004.02612.x     Document Type: Article

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