High-performance and site-directed in utero electroporation by a triple-electrode probe

Nature Communications

Volumn 3, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Dal Maschio, Marco ^a   Ghezzi, Diego ^a   Bony, Guillaume ^a   Alabastri, Alessandro ^a   Deidda, Gabriele ^a   Brondi, Marco ^b,c   Sato, Sebastian Sulis ^b,d   Zaccaria, Remo Proietti ^a   Di Fabrizio, Enzo ^a,e   Ratto, Gian Michele ^b,c   Cancedda, Laura ^a  

^a ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO NANOSCIENZE CNR   (Italy)

^c CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche   (Italy)

^d CENTER FOR NANOTECHNOLOGY INNOVATION NEST   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY MAGNA GRAECIA OF CATANZARO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL POLARITY; CELL VIABILITY; CEREBELLUM; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTRODE; ELECTROPORATION; EMBRYO; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HIPPOCAMPUS; IN UTERO ELECTROPORATION; MOLECULAR PROBE; MOTOR CORTEX; NONHUMAN; PURKINJE CELL; RAT; RELIABILITY; SIMULATION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; VISUAL CORTEX; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; UTERUS;

ANIMALS; CEREBELLUM; ELECTRODES; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ELECTROPORATION; FEMALE; PURKINJE CELLS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TRANSFECTION; UTERUS;

EID: 84864840288     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1961     Document Type: Article

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