What you always needed to know about electroporation based DNA vaccines

Human Vaccines and Immunotherapeutics

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1694-1702

  Gothelf, Anita ^a   Gehl, Julie ^a  

^a GENTOFTE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

DNA vaccine; Electroporation; Gene electrotransfer; Gene therapy; Gene transfection; Muscle; Skin

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; CARCINOEMBRYONIC ANTIGEN; DNA VACCINE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HEPATITIS C VACCINE; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS VACCINE; INFLUENZA VACCINE; INTERLEUKIN 12; INTERLEUKIN 2; LOCKED NUCLEIC ACID; MALARIA VACCINE; PEPTIDE NUCLEIC ACID; PLASMID DNA; WART VIRUS VACCINE;

CELL PERMEABILIZATION; COLORECTAL CANCER; DNA IMMUNIZATION; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTROCHEMOTHERAPY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROPORATION; GENE THERAPY; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1 INFECTION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MELANOMA; MERKEL CELL TUMOR; MUSCLE; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; SKIN; TRANSGENE; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA IN SITU;

DNA VACCINE; ELECTROPORATION; GENE ELECTROTRANSFER; GENE THERAPY; GENE TRANSFECTION; MUSCLE; SKIN;

ANIMALS; ELECTROPORATION; HUMANS; MUSCLES; SKIN; VACCINES, DNA;

EID: 84869761013     PISSN: 21645515     EISSN: 2164554X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/hv.22062     Document Type: Review

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