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Plasmid and Other Non-Viral Vectors

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Gene Transfer in the Cardiovascular System

Part of the book series: Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine ((DICM,volume 189))

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I would like to thank Susan Calvin, Francis Dwulet, Judith Mank, Robert McCarthy, Lisa Noeth, Deborah Pardue, and Melissa Reardon from Boehringer Mannheim Biochemicals and Kurt Naujoks from Boehringer Mannheim Therapeutics for the critical reading of this manuscript and helpful discussions. In addition, I also thank the following individuals for providing me with information for this chapter: Uwe Michaelis from Boehringer Mannheim Therapeutics, Mary Dasovich-Moody and Volker Kuenemund from Boehringer Mannheim Biochemicals, Xiao Chen from Progenitor, Inc., Mark Gessler from GeneMedicine Inc., Linda Hull from Genetronics, Inc., R. Douglas Hulse from RGene Therapeutics, Inc., Yuhong Xu from University of California, San Francisco and Robert Zaugg from Vical, Inc.

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Jacobsen, L.B. (1997). Plasmid and Other Non-Viral Vectors. In: March, K.L. (eds) Gene Transfer in the Cardiovascular System. Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine, vol 189. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-6277-1_4

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