Nonviral direct conversion of primary mouse embryonic fibroblasts to neuronal cells

Molecular Therapy Nucleic Acids

Volumn 1, Issue 7, 2012, Pages e32-

  Adler, Andrew F ^a   Grigsby, Christopher L ^a   Kulangara, Karina ^a   Wang, Hong ^b   Yasuda, Ryohei ^b   Leong, Kam W ^a  

^a Duke University   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Deletion modification; Gene insertion

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868359023     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21622531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/mtna.2012.25     Document Type: Article

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