InhaltsangabePart I: Biolistic DNA Delivery in Plant Science and Agricultural Biotechnology 1. Comparison Between Agrobacterium-Mediated and Direct Gene Transfer Using the Gene Gun            Caixia Gao and Klaus K. Nielsen 2. Transient Gene Expression in Epidermal Cells of Plant Leaves by Biolistic DNA Delivery            Shoko Ueki, Shimpei Magori, Benoît Lacroix, and Vitaly Citovsky 3. Transformation of Nuclear DNA in Meristematic and Embryogenic Tissues            Mulpuri Sujatha and K.B.R.S. Visarada 4. Biolistic DNA Delivery to Leaf Tissue of Plants with the Non-Vacuum Gene Gun (HandyGun)            Anssi L. Vuorinen, Arto Nieminen, Victor Gaba, Sidona Sikorskaite, and Jari P.T. Valkonen 5. HandGun-Mediated Inoculation of Plants with Viral Pathogens for Mechanistic Studies            Victor Gaba, Moshe Lapidot, and Amit Gal-On 6. Biolistics-Based Gene Silencing in Plants Using a Modified Particle Inflow Gun            Kevin M. Davies, Simon C. Deroles, Murray R. Boase, Don A. Hunter, and Kathy E. Schwinn Part II: Biolistic DNA Delivery in Nematodes 7. Biolistic Transformation of Caenorhabditis elegans            Meltem Isik and Eugene Berezikov 8. Improved Vectors for Selection of Transgenic Caenorhabditis elegans            Annabel A. Ferguson, Liquan Cai, Luv Kashyap, and Alfred L. Fisher 9. Biolistic Transformation of Brugia malayi            Tarig B. Higazi and Thomas R. Unnasch Part III: Biolistic DNA Delivery in Mammalian Cells In Vitro 10. Biolistic Transfection of Human Embryonic Kidney (HEK) 293 Cells            Xiongwei Li, Masaki Uchida, H. Oya Alpar, and Peter Mertens 11. Biolistic Transfection of Tumor Tissue Samples            Kandan Aravindaram, Shu-Yi Yin, and Ning-Sun Yang 12. Biolistic Transfection of Freshly Isolated Adult Ventricular Myocytes            David F. Steele, Ying Dou, and David Fedida 13. Biolistic Transfection of Neurons in Organotypic Brain Slices            John A. O'Brien and Sarah C.R. Lummis Part IV: Biolistic DNA Delivery in Mammalian Cells In Vivo 14. Biolistic DNA Delivery to Mice with the Low Pressure Gene Gun            Meng-Chi Yen and Ming-Derg Lai 15. Chemokine Overexpression in the Skin by Biolistic DNA Delivery            Ahmad Jalili 16. Enhancement of Gene Gun-Induced Vaccine-Specific Cytotoxic T Cell Response by Administration of Chemotherapeutic Drugs            Steve Pascolo 17. Dendritic Cell-Specific Biolistic Transfection Using the Fascin Gene Promoter            Yvonne Höhn, Stephan Sudowe, and Angelika B. Reske-Kunz 18. Particle-Mediated Administration of Plasmid DNA on Corneas of BALB/c Mice            Dirk Bauer, Susanne Wasmuth, Mengji Lu, and Arnd Heiligenhaus Part V: Biolistic DNA Vaccination in Animal Disease Models 19. Optimizing Particle-Mediated Epidermal Delivery of an Influenza DNA Vaccine in Ferrets            Eric J. Yager, Cristy Stagnar, Ragisha Gopalakrishnan, James T. Fuller, and Deborah H. Fuller 20. Methods for Monitoring Gene Gun-Induced HBV- and HCV-Specific Immune Responses in Mouse Models            Gustaf Ahlén, Matti Sällberg, and Lars Frelin 21. Gene Gun Immunization to Combat Malaria            Elke S. Bergmann-Leitne