Activation of a diphtheria toxin A gene by expression of human immunodeficiency virus-1 Tat and Rev proteins in transfected cells.

abstract：:Administration of plasmid/lipid complexes to the lung airways for the treatment of metastatic pulmonary diseases represents a new strategy of gene therapy. In this study we present evidence that intratracheal administration of a plasmid encoding murine IL-12 complexed with N-[1-(2,3-dioleyloxy)propyl)-N,N,N-trimethyla...

journal_title：Human gene therapy

authors： Blezinger P,Freimark BD,Matar M,Wilson E,Singhal A,Min W,Nordstrom JL,Pericle F

更新日期：1999-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA interference (RNAi) is a form of posttranscriptional gene silencing mediated by short double-stranded RNA, known as small interfering RNA (siRNA). These siRNAs are capable of binding to a specific mRNA sequence and causing its degradation. The recent demonstration of a plasmid vector that directs siRNA synthesis i...

journal_title：Human gene therapy

authors： Abbas-Terki T,Blanco-Bose W,Déglon N,Pralong W,Aebischer P

更新日期：2002-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:T lymphocytes, regardless of their specificity, are considered key targets for genetic modification in the treatment of inherited or acquired human diseases. In this study, we generated Lewis T cell lines specific for Dark Agouti rat alloantigens and tested the potential of allospecific T lymphocytes as carriers of ge...

journal_title：Human gene therapy

authors： Hammer MH,Flügel A,Seifert M,Lehmann M,Brandt C,Volk HD,Ritter T

更新日期：2000-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Severe fetal growth restriction (FGR) affects 1:500 pregnancies, is untreatable and causes serious neonatal morbidity and death. Reduced uterine blood flow (UBF) and lack of bioavailable VEGF due to placental insufficiency is a major cause. Transduction of uterine arteries in normal or FGR sheep and guinea pigs using ...

journal_title：Human gene therapy

authors： Rossi C,Lees M,Mehta V,Heikura T,Martin J,Zachary I,Spencer R,Peebles DM,Shaw R,Karhinen M,Yla-Herttuala S,David AL

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the next decades, gene editing technologies are expected to be used in the treatment and prevention of human diseases. Yet, the future uses of gene editing in medicine are still unknown, including its applicability and effectiveness to the treatment and prevention of infectious diseases, cancer, and monogenic and p...

journal_title：Human gene therapy

authors： Rocha LFM,Braga LAM,Mota FB

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autoimmune destruction of islets in the pancreas leads to the development of insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM). Replacement of insulin-producing tissue by transplantation of islets provides a cure to disease but requires immunosuppression or a means of controlling anti-graft immune responses. To promote islet...

journal_title：Human gene therapy

authors： Gallichan WS,Kafri T,Krahl T,Verma IM,Sarvetnick N

更新日期：1998-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Pulmonary edema is cleared via active Na(+) transport by alveolar epithelial Na(+)/K(+)-ATPases and Na(+) channels. Rats exposed to acute hyperoxia have a high mortality rate, decreased Na(+)/K(+)-ATPase function, and decreased alveolar fluid clearance (AFC). We hypothesized that Na(+)/K(+)-ATPase subunit gene overexp...

journal_title：Human gene therapy

authors： Factor P,Dumasius V,Saldias F,Brown LA,Sznajder JI

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Establishing pharmacological parameters, such as efficacy, routes of administration, and toxicity, for recombinant adeno-associated virus (rAAV) vectors is a prerequisite for gaining acceptance for clinical applications. In fact, even a therapeutic window, that is, the dose range between therapeutic efficacy and toxic...

journal_title：Human gene therapy

authors： Virag T,Cecchini S,Kotin RM

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurodegeneration in Parkinson's disease (PD) affects mainly dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra, where age-related, increasing percentages of cells lose detectable respiratory activity associated with depletion of intact mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA). Replenishment of mtDNA might improve neuronal bioenergetic fu...

journal_title：Human gene therapy

authors： Keeney PM,Quigley CK,Dunham LD,Papageorge CM,Iyer S,Thomas RR,Schwarz KM,Trimmer PA,Khan SM,Portell FR,Bergquist KE,Bennett JP Jr

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Targeted therapy produces objective responses in bladder cancer patients, although the responses can be short. Meanwhile, response rates to immune therapy are lower, but the effects are more durable. Based on these findings, it was hypothesized that urothelial carcinoma associated 1 (UCA1)-targeted therapy could syner...

journal_title：Human gene therapy

authors： Zhen S,Lu J,Chen W,Zhao L,Li X

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Targeted vectors provide a number of advantages for systemic and local gene delivery strategies. Several groups have investigated the utility of using various ligands to alter the tropism of adenovirus (Ad) vectors. We have previously demonstrated that fibroblast growth factor (FGF) ligands can specifically target DNA...

journal_title：Human gene therapy

authors： Printz MA,Gonzalez AM,Cunningham M,Gu DL,Ong M,Pierce GF,Aukerman SL

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In previous studies we demonstrated that a modified human HSP70b promoter (HSE.70b) directs high levels of gene expression to tumor cells after mild hyperthermia treatment in the range of 41.5-44 degrees C. This transcriptional targeting system exhibits low basal activity at 37 degrees C, is highly induced (950-fold) ...

journal_title：Human gene therapy

authors： Brade AM,Szmitko P,Ngo D,Liu FF,Klamut HJ

更新日期：2003-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Diabetes mellitus derives from either insulin deficiency (type I) or resistance (type II). Homozygous mutations in the insulin receptor (IR) gene cause the rare leprechaunism and Rabson-Mendenhall syndromes, severe forms of hyperinsulinemic insulin resistance for which no therapy is currently available. Systems have b...

journal_title：Human gene therapy

authors： Cotugno G,Pollock R,Formisano P,Linher K,Beguinot F,Auricchio A

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The initial stages following the in vitro cytokine stimulation of human cord blood CD34+ cells overlap with the period when lentiviral gene transfer is typically performed. Single-cell transcriptional profiling and time-lapse microscopy were used to investigate how the vector-cell crosstalk impacts on the fate decisio...

journal_title：Human gene therapy

authors： Moussy A,Papili Gao N,Corre G,Poletti V,Majdoul S,Fenard D,Gunawan R,Stockholm D,Páldi A

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Artemis is a hairpin-opening endonuclease involved in nonhomologous end-joining and V(D)J recombination. Deficiency of Artemis results in radiation-sensitive severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) characterized by complete absence of T and B cells due to an arrest at the receptor recombination stage. We have generate...

journal_title：Human gene therapy

authors： Multhaup M,Karlen AD,Swanson DL,Wilber A,Somia NV,Cowan MJ,McIvor RS

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical success of suicide gene therapy using herpes simplex virus type 1 thymidine kinase (TK) is largely dependent on the capacity of this enzyme to effectively induce the death of bystander cells. We have shown that fusion of TK to an 11-amino acid peptide from the basic domain of the human immunodeficiency vi...

journal_title：Human gene therapy

authors： Tasciotti E,Giacca M

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eleven patients with moderate to severe erectile dysfunction (ED) were given a single-dose corpus cavernosum injection of hMaxi-K, a "naked" DNA plasmid carrying the human cDNA encoding hSlo (for human slow-poke), the gene for the alpha, or pore-forming, subunit of the human smooth muscle Maxi-K channel. Three patient...

journal_title：Human gene therapy

authors： Melman A,Bar-Chama N,McCullough A,Davies K,Christ G

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Retroviral vectors encoding glucose-responsive promoters driving furin expression may provide an amplified, glucose-regulated secretion of insulin. We constructed LhI*TFSN virus to encode a glucose-regulatable transforming growth factor alpha promoter controlling furin expression with a viral LTR promoter driving cons...

journal_title：Human gene therapy

authors： Barry SC,Ramesh N,Lejnieks D,Simonson WT,Kemper L,Lernmark A,Osborne WR

更新日期：2001-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The optimal stem cell source for stem cell gene therapy has not been defined. Most gene transfer studies have used peripheral blood or marrow repopulating cells collected after administration of granulocyte colony-stimulating factor and stem cell factor (G-CSF/SCF). For clinical applications, however, growth factor ad...

journal_title：Human gene therapy

authors： Thomasson B,Peterson L,Thompson J,Goerner M,Kiem HP

更新日期：2003-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Leukocyte adhesion deficiency type I (LAD-I) is a primary immunodeficiency caused by mutations in the ITGB2 gene and is characterized by recurrent and life-threatening bacterial infections. These mutations lead to defective or absent expression of β2 integrins on the leukocyte surface, compromising adhesion and extrav...

journal_title：Human gene therapy

authors： Leon-Rico D,Aldea M,Sanchez-Baltasar R,Mesa-Nuñez C,Record J,Burns SO,Santilli G,Thrasher AJ,Bueren JA,Almarza E

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to determine the safety and antitumor activity of IFN-gamma retroviral vector in patients with advanced melanoma. Seventeen patients (9 single courses, 8 multiple courses) received a total of 363 intratumor injections of IFN-gamma retroviral vector (1 x 10(7) PFU/ml administered at 0.3, 0...

journal_title：Human gene therapy

authors： Nemunaitis J,Fong T,Burrows F,Bruce J,Peters G,Ognoskie N,Meyer W,Wynne D,Kerr R,Pippen J,Oldham F,Ando D

更新日期：1999-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA expression vectors may be administered to patients like conventional medicines to have a finite and controlled duration of action. The clinical application of these medicines will require a precise understanding of the kinetics of the administered gene, the mRNA transcript, and the gene product. The apparent kinet...

journal_title：Human gene therapy

authors： Ledley TS,Ledley FD

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lentiviral vectors are efficient gene delivery vehicles for therapeutic and research applications. In contrast to oncoretroviral vectors, they are able to infect most nonproliferating cells. In the liver, induction of cell proliferation dramatically improved hepatocyte transduction using all types of retroviral vector...

journal_title：Human gene therapy

authors： Pichard V,Couton D,Desdouets C,Ferry N

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trans-dominant mutants of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) Tat and Rev are attractive candidates for use in gene therapy in the treatment of HIV-1 infections because both are essential for viral replication. Retroviral vectors were constructed to allow either Tat-inducible or Tat- and Rev-inducible expressi...

journal_title：Human gene therapy

authors： Liem SE,Ramezani A,Li X,Joshi S

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Urocortin-2 (UCn2) peptide infusion increases cardiac function in patients with heart failure, but chronic peptide infusion is cumbersome, is costly, and provides only short-term benefits. Gene transfer would circumvent these shortcomings. We previously showed that a single intravenous (IV) injection of AAV8.UCn2 incr...

journal_title：Human gene therapy

authors： Lai NC,Gao MH,Giamouridis D,Suarez J,Miyanohara A,Parikh J,Hightower S,Guo T,Dillmann W,Kim YC,Diaz-Juarez J,Hammond HK

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The utility of first-generation adenovirus vectors for long-term gene transfer in humans is limited by preexisting antiadenoviral immunity. We demonstrate here that new-generation high-capacity adenovirus vectors (HC-Ads) can efficiently transduce the brain and mediate stable transgene expression for at least 2 months...

journal_title：Human gene therapy

authors： Thomas CE,Schiedner G,Kochanek S,Castro MG,Lowenstein PR

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondrial neurogastrointestinal encephalomyopathy (MNGIE) is a devastating disease caused by mutations in TYMP, which encodes thymidine phosphorylase (TP). In MNGIE patients, TP dysfunction results in systemic thymidine and deoxyuridine overload, which interferes with mitochondrial DNA replication. Preclinical stu...

journal_title：Human gene therapy

authors： Cabrera-Pérez R,Vila-Julià F,Hirano M,Mingozzi F,Torres-Torronteras J,Martí R

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lentiviral vectors are promising tools for gene transfer into the central nervous system. We have characterized in detail transduction with human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1)-derived vectors encoding enhanced green fluorescent protein (eGFP) in the adult mouse brain. Different brain regions such as the striat...

journal_title：Human gene therapy

authors： Baekelandt V,Claeys A,Eggermont K,Lauwers E,De Strooper B,Nuttin B,Debyser Z

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transfer of a herpes simplex virus-derived thymidine kinase (HSV-tk) gene into brain tumor cells and subsequent ganciclovir (GCV) treatment has been shown by others to be an effective treatment in rats with intracerebrally inoculated 9L gliosarcomas. Mechanism of action and reproducibility are, however, still a matter...

journal_title：Human gene therapy

authors： Vincent AJ,Vogels R,Someren GV,Esandi MC,Noteboom JL,Avezaat CJ,Vecht C,Bekkum DW,Valerio D,Bout A,Hoogerbrugge PM

更新日期：1996-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The rapid inactivation of murine-derived retroviral vectors in human or nonhuman primate sera is largely attributed to the activity of complement mediated through the classical pathway. In this study, we have further investigated the relationship between the human complement cascade and retrovirus inactivation. Preinc...

journal_title：Human gene therapy

authors： Rother RP,Squinto SP,Mason JM,Rollins SA

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00