Nanochannel electroporation delivers precise amounts of biomolecules into living cells

Nature Nanotechnology

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 747-754

  Boukany, Pouyan E ^a   Morss, Andrew ^a,b   Liao, Wei Ching ^a   Henslee, Brian ^a   Jung, Hyunchul ^a   Zhang, Xulang ^a   Yu, Bo ^a   Wang, Xinmei ^a   Wu, Yun ^a   Li, Lei ^a   Gao, Keliang ^a   Hu, Xin ^a   Zhao, Xi ^a   Hemminger, O ^a   Lu, Wu ^a   Lafyatis, Gregory P ^a,b   Lee, L James ^a  

^a Ohio State University   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMOLECULES; CELLS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROPORATION; MICROCHANNELS; OPTICAL TWEEZERS;

BIOLOGICAL STUDIES; CELL CYTOPLASM; CELL VIABILITY; ELECTROPORATION DEVICES; HIGH THROUGHPUT; NANO CHANNELS; THERAPEUTIC APPLICATION; TRANSFECTION AGENTS;

CYTOLOGY;

NANOCHANNEL;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL ORGANELLE; CELL VIABILITY; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY; ELECTROPORATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL TWEEZERS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 80755159634     PISSN: 17483387     EISSN: 17483395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2011.164     Document Type: Article

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