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. 2011 Jun 7;12(6):3705–3722. doi: 10.3390/ijms12063705

Table 2.

Gene delivery systems.

Expression Type Efficiency (%) Cell Viability (%) Safety
Virus* Stable, or Transient 80–90% 80–90% Low
Electroporation Transient 50–70% 40–50% High
TF reagent ** Transient 20–30% 80–90% High
*

Virus including adenovirus (transient), retrovirus (stable), and lentivirus (stable);

**

TF reagent, transfection reagents including PEI (Polysciences Inc.), FuGENE HD (Promega), and Lipofectamine 2000 (Invitrogen);

All values are ours (unpublished experiments).