A numerical model of skin electroporation as a method to enhance gene transfection in skin

IFMBE Proceedings

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 597-601

  Pavselj, Natasa ^a   Preat, V ^b   Miklavcic, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Electropermeabilization; Electroporation; Finite elements; Gene transfer; Numerical modeling; Skin

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRODES; ELECTROPORATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GENE TRANSFER; GENES; NUMERICAL METHODS; RATS; SKIN; TISSUE; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

COMSOL MULTIPHYSICS; ELECTRODE GEOMETRIES; ELECTROPERMEABILIZATION; IN-VIVO EXPERIMENTS; SKIN ELECTROPORATION; SPECIFIC CONDUCTIVITY; TISSUE CONDUCTIVITY; TISSUE PERMEABILIZATION;

NUMERICAL MODELS;

EID: 85007036232     PISSN: 16800737     EISSN: 14339277     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-73044-6_152     Document Type: Conference Paper

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