Electroporation facilitates introduction of reporter transgenes and virions into schistosome eggs

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Kines, Kristine J ^a,b   Rinaldi, Gabriel ^a,c   Okatcha, Tunika I ^a,b   Morales, Maria E ^d   Mann, Victoria H ^a   Tort, Jose F ^c   Brindley, Paul J ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b TULANE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^c DEPARTAMENTO DE BIOQUÍMICA   (Uruguay)

^d TULANE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATHEPSIN D; FIREFLY LUCIFERASE; GENOMIC DNA; MESSENGER RNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; VIRUS GLYCOPROTEIN; HELMINTH DNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPORATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; MACROMOLECULE; MOLONEY LEUKEMIA ONCOVIRUS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; TRANSGENE; VESICULAR STOMATITIS VIRUS; VIRION; ANIMAL; GENE TRANSFER; GENETICS; OOCYTE; PROVIRUS; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; DNA, HELMINTH; ELECTROPORATION; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; MICE; MOLONEY MURINE LEUKEMIA VIRUS; OVUM; PROVIRUSES; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; TRANSGENES; VESICULOVIRUS;

EID: 77649194661     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0000593     Document Type: Article

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