Photomechanical Wave-Driven Delivery of siRNAs Targeting Intermediate Filament Proteins Promotes Functional Recovery after Spinal Cord Injury in Rats

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Ando, Takahiro ^a   Sato, Shunichi ^b   Toyooka, Terushige ^b   Kobayashi, Hiroaki ^b   Nawashiro, Hiroshi ^b   Ashida, Hiroshi ^b   Obara, Minoru ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL DEFENSE MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEIN; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; VIMENTIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HISTOLOGY; IRRADIATION; LOCOMOTION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEODYMIUM YAG LASER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOTOMECHANICAL WAVE; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; RNA SEQUENCE; SPINAL CORD INJURY; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT DYES; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEINS; RATS; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; STAINING AND LABELING; VIMENTIN;

RATTUS;

EID: 84871333873     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0051744     Document Type: Article

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