Electroporation as an efficient method of gene transfer

Development Growth and Differentiation

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 443-448

  Odani, Noritaka ^a   Ito, Kodai ^a   Nakamura, Harukazu ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Knock down; Misexpression; Neural tube; RCAS vector; Tet on and Tet off; Transposon

Indexed keywords

ENHANCED GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; RETROVIRUS VECTOR; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; TETRACYCLINE;

CHICK EMBRYO; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROPORATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; KNOCKOUT GENE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; TRANSPOSON;

ALBUMINS; ANIMALS; CHICK EMBRYO; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ELECTROPORATION; GENE SILENCING; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; GENETIC VECTORS; NEURAL CREST; RETROVIRIDAE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING;

EID: 50049090659     PISSN: 00121592     EISSN: 1440169X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-169X.2008.01037.x     Document Type: Review

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