Scaffold/matrix attached region-based nonviral episomal vectors

Human Gene Therapy

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 915-923

  Hagedorn, Claudia ^a   Wong, Suet Ping ^b   Harbottle, Richard ^b   Lipps, Hans J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WITTEN HERDECKE   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL HEART AND LUNG INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA GLOBIN; BETA INTERFERON; DOXYCYCLINE; GLIAL CELL LINE DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; HETEROGENEOUS NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN U; NANOPARTICLE; PLASMID DNA; POLYETHYLENEIMINE; TETRACYCLINE DERIVATIVE; TETRACYCLINE RESPONSIVE PROMOTER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS DNA;

CELL DIVISION; CELL NUCLEUS MATRIX; CHROMOSOME; DNA MODIFICATION; EPIGENETICS; GENE CONTROL; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE VECTOR; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IN VITRO GENE TRANSFER; IN VIVO GENE TRANSFER; LIVER CELL; MAMMAL CELL; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NONVIRAL EPISOMAL VECTOR; NONVIRAL GENE DELIVERY SYSTEM; PLASMID; REVIEW; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMALS; DNA REPLICATION; GENE THERAPY; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; GENETIC VECTORS; HUMANS; MATRIX ATTACHMENT REGIONS; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PLASMIDS; TRANSGENES;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 80051956027     PISSN: 10430342     EISSN: 15577422     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/hum.2011.084     Document Type: Review

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