Intratumoral low-volume jet-injection for efficient nonviral gene transfer

Item Type:	Article
Title:	Intratumoral low-volume jet-injection for efficient nonviral gene transfer
Creators Name:	Walther, W. and Stein, U. and Fichtner, I. and Voss, C. and Schmidt, T. and Schleef, M. and Nellessen, T. and Schlag, P.M.
Abstract:	Jet-injection has become an applicable technology among other established nonviral delivery systems, such as particle bombardment or in vivo electroporation. The low-volume jet injector employed in this study uses compressed air to inject solutions of 1.5-10 {my}L containing naked DNA into the desired tissue. The novel design of this prototype makes multiple jet-injections possible. Therefore, repeated jet-injections into one target tissue can be performed easily. This jet-injector hand-held system was used for the direct in vivo gene transfer of plasmid DNA into tumors to achieve efficient expression of reporter genes ({beta}-galactosidase, green fluorescent protein [GFP]) and of therapeutic genes (TNF-{alpha}) in different tumor models. The study presented here revealed the key parameters of efficient in vivo jet-injection (jet-injection volume, pressure, jet penetration, DNA stability) to define the optimal conditions for a jet-injection-aided nonviral gene therapy.
Keywords:	Gene Therapy, Jet-Injection, Naked DNA, Nonviral Gene Transfer, Plasmid Stability, Plasmid Topology
Source:	Molecular Biotechnology
ISSN:	1073-6085
Publisher:	Humana Press
Volume:	21
Number:	2
Page Range:	105-115
Date:	1 June 2002
Official Publication:	https://doi.org/10.1385/MB:21:2:105
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