Table 1. Review of methods used for transfecting cardiovascular system cells.

Cell type	Source	Transfection method	Transfection efficiency
Cardiovascular system cells	Chicken	Adenoviral vector	63% [38]
Cardiomyocytes	Rat	Adenoviral vector	90% [39]
Cardiomyocytes	Rat	Adenoviral vector	100% [40]
Cardiomyocytes	Rat	Adeno associated viral vector	90% [40]
Cardiomyocytes	Rat	Adeno associated viral vector	88.1% [41]
Cardiomyocytes	Rat	Adenoviral-polylysine vector	70% [42]
Cardiomyocytes	Rat	Retrovirus/Lentiviral vector	70–100% [40]
Cardiomyocytes	Rat	Calcium phosphate precipitate	1–2% [40]
Cardiomyocytes	Rat	Calcium phosphate precipitate	5–8% [41]
Cardiomyocytes	Rat	Calcium phosphate precipitation method	2–4% [43]
Cardiomyocytes	Rat	Calcium phosphate precipitation method	5–10% [54]
Cardiovascular system cells	Chicken	Electroporation	26% [38]
Cardiomyocytes	Rat	Electroporation	7.5% [41]
Cardiomyocytes	Rat	Electroporation	37% [40]
Cardiomyocytes	Rat	Nucleofection	4.8% [41]
Cardiomyocytes	Rat	Nucleofection	70% [40]
Cardiomyocytes	Rat	Lipofectin	1.6% [42]
Cardiomyocytes	Rat	Lipofectamine 2000	8.1% [41]
Cardiomyocytes	Rat	Fugene 6	3.3% [41]
Cardiomyocytes	Rat	Optical transfection	5% [40]
Cardiovascular system cells	Hamster	Hypothermic-cardioplegia method	77.3±9.0% [44]
Cardiomycytes	Rat	Pressure mediated transfection	48±5% [45]
Cardiomyocytes	Pig	Adenoviral vector	[46]
Cardiomyocytes	Rat	Adeno associated viral vector	[47]
Cardiac progenitor cells	Mice	Bicistronic lentiviral vector	[48]
Cardiovascular system cells	Dog	Hemagglutinating virus of Japan-liposome method	[49]
Cardiovascular system cells	Rat	Hemagglutinating virus of Japan–liposome method	[50]
Cardiomyocytes	Rat	Liposomes coated with uv inactivated sendai viral vector	[47]
Cardiomyocytes	Rat	Lipofectamine plus	[41]
Cardiomyocytes	Rat	Geneporter	[41]
Cardiomyocytes	Rat	Metafectene	[41]
Cardiomyocytes	Rat	Lipogen	[41]
Cardiovascular system cells	Rat	Ultrasound-targeted liposome microbubble destruction	[51]
Cardiovascular system cells	Dog	DNA-polymer coating	[52]
Cardiac progenitor cells	Human	The phiC31 integrase genomic modification system	[53]