Rescue of photoreceptors by BDNF gene transfer using in vivo electroporation in the RCS rat of retinitis pigmentosa

Current Eye Research

Volumn 34, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 791-799

  Zhang, Meng ^a   Mo, Xiaofen ^a   Fang, Yuan ^a   Guo, Wenyi ^a   Wu, Jihong ^a   Zhang, Shenghai ^a   Huang, Qian ^b  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHANGHAI FIRST PEOPLE S HOSPITAL   (China)

Author keywords

Electroporation; Gene therapy; Retinal ganglion cell; Retinal pigment epithelium; Retinitis pigmentosa

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPORATION; GENE EXPRESSION; IN VIVO GENE TRANSFER; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RETINA GANGLION CELL; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CELL COUNT; ELECTROPORATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE THERAPY; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS, VERTEBRATE; PLASMIDS; RATS; RATS, MUTANT STRAINS; RETINAL PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 70350637835     PISSN: 02713683     EISSN: 14602202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02713680903086018     Document Type: Article

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