Does anyone have experience of using an osmotic pump to deliver a plasmid into the mouse CNS?

Andrew Michael Pickering @Andrew_Pickering5

02 February 2018 0 1K Report

I have seen a couple of papers on this but they tend to be rather old and not high impact.

Does anyone have experience doing this?

If so how effective is it?

Do you get plasmid uptake by neurons?

What sort of lipid vector do you use?

and does anyone have a good protocol?

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