The myocardium is a potential target for the expression of conversion at day 3 with associated myocardial damage. exogenous genes to treat inherited and acquired diseases.We hypothesised that the damage was associated with Although adenovirus-mediated gene transfer has resulted macro-aggregates of cationic liposomes-DNA occluding in high-level gene transfer in vivo via direct intramyocardial the microcirculation. When such aggregates were excluded injection and via a percutaneous intra-arterial route, the no X-gal conversion was seen in vivo. In order to show time-course of gene expression is limited by host immune that X-gal conversion occurs in areas of infarction in the responses. It was the aim of this study to test whether catmyocardium we caused closed chest infarction by ionic liposome-mediated gene transfer, which does not sufdeploying a platinum micro-embolisation coil in the circumfer from the aforementioned problems, was feasible in the flex coronary artery. At day 3 X-gal conversion was adult rabbit myocardium via a percutaneous transluminal observed in the territory supplied by the occluded artery. approach. Doses of plasmid DNA encoding lacZ from 200-Thus, microinfarction causes the false positive appearance 800 g complexed to cationic liposomes resulted in X-gal of gene transfer when using a lacZ reporter gene.