Myoblast Transplantation

Foreign Genes Introduced into Muscle by Liposomes

Published in Gene Therapy Weekly, March 13th, 1995

Researchers from Japan authored what they believe to be the first report of successfully introducing foreign genes into primary cultures of myoblasts by means of liposomes.

Hisanori Kojima, Kanazawa University School of Medicine, Japan, and colleagues stated that they found cationic multilamellar liposomes to be a useful mediator for transferring foreign genes into myoblasts in primary culture. Kojima et al. published a report that described the transfection of myoblasts with exogenous genes by using cationic multilamellar liposomes ("Cationic Multilamellar Liposome-Mediated Gene Transfer into Primary Myoblasts," Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications,...

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