Insight concerning the mechanism of therapeutic ultrasound facilitating gene delivery: Increasing cell membrane permeability or interfering with intracellular pathways?

Human Gene Therapy

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 156-164

  Duvshani Eshet, Maayan ^a   Haber, Tom ^a   MacHluf, Marcelle ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; PLASMID DNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL STRAIN BHK; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; CYTOSKELETON; ENDOCYTOSIS; ENDOSOME; FIBROBLAST; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; LYSOSOME; MALE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; NONVIRAL GENE DELIVERY SYSTEM; PREPUCE; THERAPEUTIC ULTRASOUND; ULTRASOUND;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CRICETINAE; CYTOSKELETON; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; INTRACELLULAR SPACE; PLASMIDS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOUND; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 84893557845     PISSN: 10430342     EISSN: 15577422     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/hum.2013.140     Document Type: Article

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