Cellular Therapies for Muscular Dystrophies: Frustrations and Clinical Successes.

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：:Chronic inflammation in tibialis anterior muscles of mdx mice was produced by a single injection of a recombinant adenovirus vector (AV) expressing an immunogenic beta-galactosidase (beta-gal). In regions of intense beta-gal staining, mononuclear infiltrates abounded, and muscle fibers showed strong extrasynaptic utro...

journal_title：Human gene therapy

authors： Waheed I,Gilbert R,Nalbantoglu J,Guibinga GH,Petrof BJ,Karpati G

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite improvements in drug and device therapy for heart failure, hospitalization rates and mortality have changed little in the past decade. Randomized clinical trials using gene transfer to improve function of the failing heart are the focus of this review. Four randomized clinical trials of gene transfer in heart ...

journal_title：Human gene therapy

authors： Penny WF,Hammond HK

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In previous studies we showed that low-dose irradiation and immunosuppression with cyclosporine and mycophenolate mofetil prolonged in vivo persistence of gene-modified T cells but was unable to induce tolerance. We hypothesized that the lack of sustained antigen presentation because of the limited life span of the in...

journal_title：Human gene therapy

authors： Piasecki JC,Beagles K,Beard BC,Riddell S,Kiem HP

更新日期：2008-01-01 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：:Adenovirus type 5 (Ad5) is a commonly used vector for gene therapy, but its efficacy is limited by high seroprevalence and off-target hepatic and splenic sequestration. In order to circumvent these limitations, the use of vectors derived from rare species adenoviruses is appealing. The opportunity to retarget rare spe...

journal_title：Human gene therapy

authors： Coughlan L,Uusi-Kerttula H,Ma J,Degg BP,Parker AL,Baker AH

更新日期：2014-04-01 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：:Heme oxygenase 1 (HO-1) is an inducible enzyme that catalyzes heme to generate bilirubin, ferritin, and carbon monoxide. Because enhanced expression of HO-1 confers protection against many types of cell and tissue damage by modulating apoptotic cell death or cytokine expression profiles, we hypothesized that adenoviru...

journal_title：Human gene therapy

authors： Tsuburai T,Suzuki M,Nagashima Y,Suzuki S,Inoue S,Hasiba T,Ueda A,Ikehara K,Matsuse T,Ishigatsubo Y

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recombinant adeno-associated virus 2 (rAAV2) has been extensively used as a gene delivery vector for the nervous system. It targets primarily neurons in the nervous system and results in sustained long-term expression of transgenes. New rAAV serotypes have been characterized and demonstrated to have improved transduct...

journal_title：Human gene therapy

authors： Burger C,Nash K,Mandel RJ

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Unlike oncoretroviruses, lentiviral vectors can insert large genes and can target both dividing and nondividing cells; thus they hold unique promise as gene transfer agents. To enhance target range, the native lentiviral envelope glycoprotein is replaced (pseudotyped) with vesicular stomatitis virus G (VSVG), and the ...

journal_title：Human gene therapy

authors： Kumar M,Bradow BP,Zimmerberg J

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Engineered measles virus (MV) strains deriving from the vaccine lineage represent a promising oncolytic platform and are currently being tested in phase I trials. In this study, we have demonstrated that MV strains genetically engineered to express the human sodium iodide symporter (NIS) have significant antitumor act...

journal_title：Human gene therapy

authors： Opyrchal M,Allen C,Iankov I,Aderca I,Schroeder M,Sarkaria J,Galanis E

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transferring therapeutic genes into the nociceptive system, including dorsal root ganglia (DRGs) and the spinal cord, is potentially a powerful approach for the treatment of chronic pain in humans. Adeno-associated viral vectors (AAVs) are particularly useful in delivering foreign genes to targeted tissues because the...

journal_title：Human gene therapy

authors： Xu Y,Gu Y,Wu P,Li GW,Huang LY

更新日期：2003-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Vectors derived from the human parvovirus AAV-2 (adeno-associated virus type 2) are among the most promising gene delivery vehicles currently being developed. These vectors are not only capable of transducing a large variety of human cell types in vitro and in vivo, but in immunocompetent animal models can establish l...

journal_title：Human gene therapy

authors： Grimm D,Kleinschmidt JA

更新日期：1999-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The potential of short interfering RNA (siRNA) to be developed for therapeutic use against cancer depends on the availability of an efficient tumor-specific delivery vehicle. We have previously shown that a nanoscale nonviral liposome-based complex that includes an anti-transferrin receptor single-chain antibody fragm...

journal_title：Human gene therapy

authors： Pirollo KF,Zon G,Rait A,Zhou Q,Yu W,Hogrefe R,Chang EH

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adenovirus (Ad) vectors used for gene therapy are efficient in entering the infected cell and targeting their genome to the nucleus. To study the mechanism of the interaction between Ad and the nuclear envelope we have established an in vitro assay using rat liver nuclei incubated with serotype 5 Ad vector. Binding of...

journal_title：Human gene therapy

authors： Wisnivesky JP,Leopold PL,Crystal RG

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Esophageal cancer is characterized by rapid clinical progression and poor prognosis, due to early-stage invasion of adjacent tissues and metastasis. Tissue factor pathway inhibitor-2 (TFPI-2) has been implicated as a metastasis-associated gene in many types of tumors. Here we describe the potential involvement of TFPI...

journal_title：Human gene therapy

authors： Ran Y,Pan J,Hu H,Zhou Z,Sun L,Peng L,Yu L,Sun L,Liu J,Yang Z

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously reported that spliceosome-mediated RNA trans-splicing (SMaRT), using recombinant adenoviral vectors expressing pre-trans-splicing molecules (PTMs), could partially restore cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) chloride channel activity to polarized human DeltaF508 CF airway epithelia...

journal_title：Human gene therapy

authors： Liu X,Luo M,Zhang LN,Yan Z,Zak R,Ding W,Mansfield SG,Mitchell LG,Engelhardt JF

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To develop a potential gene therapy strategy for the treatment of hemophilia A, we constructed several retroviral vectors expressing a B-domain-deleted factor VIII (FVIII) cDNA. We confirmed previous reports that when the FVIII cDNA is inserted into a retroviral vector, the vector mRNA is decreased resulting in signif...

journal_title：Human gene therapy

authors： Chuah MK,VandenDriessche T,Morgan RA

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The efficiency of gene therapy strategies against cancer is limited by the poor distribution of the vectors in the malignant tissues. To solve this problem, a new generation of tumor-specific, conditionally replicative adenoviruses is being developed. To direct the replication of the virus to breast cancer, we have co...

journal_title：Human gene therapy

authors： Hernandez-Alcoceba R,Pihalja M,Wicha MS,Clarke MF

更新日期：2000-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Previously, we described a nonviral cytoplasmic gene therapy vector system based on the T7 autogene concept. This system has been shown to achieve rapid and high levels of gene expression in a variety of animal cells and tissues. To test the utility of the system in vivo tumor ablation, a T7 cancer gene therapy plasmi...

journal_title：Human gene therapy

authors： Chen X,Li Y,Xiong K,Aizicovici S,Xie Y,Zhu Q,Sturtz F,Shulok J,Snodgrass R,Wagner TE,Platika D

更新日期：1998-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Newcastle disease virus (NDV) is a naturally oncolytic virus that has been shown to be safe and effective for cancer therapy. Tumor virotherapy using NDV emerged in the 1950s and has advanced more recently by the increased availability of reverse genetics technology. In this study, we constructed a reverse genetics sy...

journal_title：Human gene therapy

authors： Wei D,Sun N,Nan G,Wang Y,Liu HQ,Peeters B,Chen ZN,Bian H

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a lethal genetic disorder for which there is currently no effective treatment. Although clinical application of adenoviral vector-mediated gene transfer has not been fully developed, it shows promise for the treatment of DMD. One significant problem posed by adenoviral vector-media...

journal_title：Human gene therapy

authors： Clemens PR,Krause TL,Chan S,Korb KE,Graham FL,Caskey CT

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We employed the hypophysectomized rats as an animal model to explore the feasibility of using genetically engineered fibroblast cells for growth hormone gene therapy. An internal ribosome entry site (IRES)-directed bicistronic retroviral vector, PSN, which contained a porcine growth hormone (pGH) cDNA at the first cis...

journal_title：Human gene therapy

authors： Chen BF,Chang WC,Chen ST,Chen DS,Hwang LH

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Liver ischemia-reperfusion (I/R) injury is a multifactorial process that affects graft function after liver transplantation. Inflammatory cytokines, such as tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-α, interleukin (IL)-6, IL-1β, and IL-18, have been shown to play key roles in the pathophysiology of liver I/R injury. Studies have in...

journal_title：Human gene therapy

authors： Zhu P,Duan L,Chen J,Xiong A,Xu Q,Zhang H,Zheng F,Tan Z,Gong F,Fang M

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell-based gene transfer using a stent platform would provide a significant advantage in terms of site-specific gene expression in the vasculature. The current study presents a novel stent design that allows stable in vivo transgene expression over a 4-week period in the vasculature. A mesh-stent coated with fibronect...

journal_title：Human gene therapy

authors： Panetta CJ,Miyauchi K,Berry D,Simari RD,Holmes DR,Schwartz RS,Caplice NM

更新日期：2002-02-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Blood vessels are among the easiest targets for gene therapy. However, no data are available about the safety and feasibility of intracoronary gene transfer in humans. We studied the safety and efficacy of catheter-mediated vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) plasmid/liposome (P/L) gene transfer in human coronar...

journal_title：Human gene therapy

authors： Laitinen M,Hartikainen J,Hiltunen MO,Eränen J,Kiviniemi M,Närvänen O,Mäkinen K,Manninen H,Syvänne M,Martin JF,Laakso M,Ylä-Herttuala S

更新日期：2000-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Hereditary tyrosinemia type 1 (HT1) is an autosomal recessive disorder caused by deficiency of fumarylacetoacetate hydrolase (FAH). It has been previously shown that ex vivo hepatocyte-directed gene therapy using an integrating lentiviral vector to replace the defective Fah gene can cure liver disease in small- and la...

journal_title：Human gene therapy

authors： VanLith C,Guthman R,Nicolas CT,Allen K,Du Z,Joo DJ,Nyberg SL,Lillegard JB,Hickey RD

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As efficient and less toxic virus-derived gene therapy vectors are developed, a pressing problem is to avoid immune response to the therapeutic gene product. Secreted therapeutic proteins potentially represent a special problem, as they are readily available to professional antigen-presenting cells throughout the body...

journal_title：Human gene therapy

authors： Cerullo V,McCormack W,Seiler M,Mane V,Cela R,Clarke C,Rodgers JR,Lee B

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reporter gene-based molecular imaging can provide invaluable information on the fate of cellular therapies postimplantation. Integrating lentiviral vectors (ILVs) are commonly used for stably engineering cells; however, their potential for insertional mutagenesis poses a significant safety concern and barrier to wides...

journal_title：Human gene therapy

authors： Hamilton AM,Foster PJ,Ronald JA

更新日期：2018-10-01 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