The feasibility of non-viral gene transfer to the diaphragm in vivo

Development Growth and Differentiation

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 547-553

  Beshay, Morris ^a,b   Gazdhar, Amiq ^a   Gugger, Mathias ^c   Reymond, Marc ^b   Schmid, Ralph A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Diaphragm; Duchenne muscular dystrophy; In vivo electroporation; Naked DNA

Indexed keywords

NAKED DNA; PLASMID DNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAPHRAGM MUSCLE; ELECTROPORATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; IN VIVO GENE TRANSFER; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; REPORTER GENE;

ANIMALS; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; DIAPHRAGM; DNA; ELECTROPORATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE THERAPY; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; GENES, REPORTER; GENETIC VECTORS; MALE; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY, DUCHENNE; PLASMIDS; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344;

EID: 68549103520     PISSN: 00121592     EISSN: 1440169X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-169X.2009.01117.x     Document Type: Article

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