Magnetofection™ of NMDA Receptor Subunits GluN1 and GluN2A Expression Vectors in Non-Neuronal Host Cells.
Methods Mol Biol
; 1677: 129-135, 2017.
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ABSTRACT
The functional study of reconstituted NMDA receptors (NMDARs) in host cells requires that the corresponding vectors for the expression of the NMDAR subunits are co-transfected with high efficiency. Magnetofection™ is a technology used to deliver nucleic acids to cells. It is driven and site-specifically guided by the attractive forces of magnetic fields acting on magnetic nanoparticles that are associated with nucleic acid vectors. In magnetofection™, cationic lipids form self-assembled complexes with the nucleic acid vectors of interest. Those complexes are then associated with magnetic nanoparticles that are concentrated at the surface of cultured cells by applying a permanent magnetic field. Magnetofection™ is a simple method to transfect cultured cells with high transfection rates. Satisfactory expression levels are obtained with very low amounts of nucleic acid vector. Moreover, incubation time with host cells is less than 1 h, as compared with the several hours needed with standard transfection assays.
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MEDLINE
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Receptores de N-Metil-D-Aspartato
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Animals
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Humans
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Methods Mol Biol
Asunto de la revista:
BIOLOGIA MOLECULAR
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2017
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Article
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Francia