Electroporation: theory and methods, perspectives for drug delivery, gene therapy and research

J Gehl - Acta Physiologica Scandinavica, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
Electroporation designates the use of short high‐voltage pulses to overcome the barrier of
the cell membrane. By applying an external electric field, which just surpasses the …

Clinical potential of electroporation for gene therapy and DNA vaccine delivery

L Lambricht, A Lopes, S Kos, G Sersa… - Expert opinion on …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: Electroporation allows efficient delivery of DNA into cells and tissues, thereby
improving the expression of therapeutic or immunogenic proteins that are encoded by …

Helper lipid structure influences protein adsorption and delivery of lipid nanoparticles to spleen and liver

R Zhang, R El-Mayta, TJ Murdoch, CC Warzecha… - Biomaterials …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Nucleic acids, such as messenger RNAs, antisense oligonucleotides, and short interfering
RNAs, hold great promise for treating previously 'undruggable'diseases. However, there are …

Gene therapy progress and prospects: nonviral vectors

T Niidome, L Huang - Gene therapy, 2002 - nature.com
The success of gene therapy is largely dependent on the development of the gene delivery
vector. Recently, gene transfection into target cells using naked DNA, which is a simple and …

Current status of COVID‐19 (pre) clinical vaccine development

T Ye, Z Zhong, A García‐Sastre… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The current COVID‐19 pandemic has a tremendous impact on daily life world‐wide. Despite
the ability to dampen the spread of SARS‐CoV‐2, the causative agent of the diseases …

Progress and prospects: naked DNA gene transfer and therapy

H Herweijer, JA Wolff - Gene therapy, 2003 - nature.com
Increases in efficiency have made naked DNA gene transfer a viable method for gene
therapy. Intravascular delivery results in effective gene delivery to liver and muscle, and …

Kinetics, statistics, and energetics of lipid membrane electroporation studied by molecular dynamics simulations

RA Böckmann, BL De Groot, S Kakorin, E Neumann… - Biophysical journal, 2008 - cell.com
Membrane electroporation is the method to directly transfer bioactive substances such as
drugs and genes into living cells, as well as preceding electrofusion. Although much …

Synthetic DNA vaccines: improved vaccine potency by electroporation and co-delivered genetic adjuvants

S Flingai, M Czerwonko, J Goodman… - Frontiers in …, 2013 - frontiersin.org
In recent years, DNA vaccines have undergone a number of technological advancements
that have incited renewed interest and heightened promise in the field. Two such …

Electroporation gene therapy preclinical and clinical trials for melanoma

LC Heller, R Heller - Current gene therapy, 2010 - ingentaconnect.com
In vivo electroporation (EP) is a versatile delivery method for gene transfer which can be
applied to any accessible tissue. Delivery of plasmid DNA encoding therapeutic genes or …

Innovative strategies for enhancing topical and transdermal drug delivery

DIJ Morrow, PA McCarron, AD Woolfson… - The Open Drug …, 2007 - benthamopen.com
Historically, the skin was thought to be a simple homogenous barrier. However, it is now
known to be a highly specialised organ, and plays a key role in homeostasis. The protective …