Chrysotile, Crocidolite, and Anthophyllite Facilitation of Transfection of Cultured Mouse Cells by Polyomavirus DNA

摘要: Three decades have elapsed since the discovery that silicates talc and fuller’s earth are potent facilitators of transfection mammalian cells. Although possibility a role for silicate facilitation in silicate-induced carcinogenesis was suggested 1971, testing by important carcinogen asbestos apparently did not occur until 1984. There then appeared reports showing facilitated cultured cells various viral RNAs plasmid polyomavirus DNA.