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Particle-mediated delivery involves coating materials onto the surface of dense sub-cellular sized (0.5–5 mm) particles and accelerating the particles to sufficient velocity to penetrate target cells. The technique was invented by Sanford and Wolf at Cornell University (1) to transfer DNA into intact plant cells (2), and was further developed into an effective process for producing genetically engineered crop plants by several groups (reviewed in 3). Subsequent work has shown that this method is generally applicable for transferring materials including DNA, RNA, proteins, peptides and pharmacological compounds into a wide variety of tissue and cell types in vivo, ex vivo, or in vitro (reviewed in 4).
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Macklin, M.D., Drape, R.J., Swain, W.F. (2000). Preparations for Particle-Mediated Gene Transfer Using the Accell® Gene Gun. In: Lowrie, D.B., Whalen, R.G. (eds) DNA Vaccines. Methods in Molecular Medicine™, vol 29. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1385/1-59259-688-6:297
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