Technical brief: Subretinal injection and electroporation into adult mouse eyes

Molecular Vision

Volumn 14, Issue , 2008, Pages 2211-2226

  Johnson, Christiana J ^a   Berglin, Lennart ^a,b   Chrenek, Micah A ^a   Redmond, T M ^c   Boatright, Jeffrey H ^a   Nickerson, John M ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b ST ERIK S EYE HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c NATIONAL EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOBEAD; PLASMID DNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPORATION; EYE SURGERY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENE DELIVERY SYSTEM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; RETINA NEUROEPITHELIAL LAYER; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES; CARRIER PROTEINS; CRYOULTRAMICROTOMY; ELECTROPORATION; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; EYE; EYE PROTEINS; GENES, PLANT; GENES, REPORTER; INJECTIONS; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; MICE; PLASMIDS; QUANTUM DOTS; RETINA;

EID: 57749178637     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10900535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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