Herpes simplex virus thymidine kinase gene therapy for rat malignant brain tumors.

abstract：:The immune response against human immunodeficiency virus type-1 (HIV-1) is believed to play a role in controlling the early stages of disease progression. The cellular immune response, in particular cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) activity, may be important for eliminating virally infected cells in HIV-1-infected individ...

journal_title：Human gene therapy

authors： Laube LS,Burrascano M,Dejesus CE,Howard BD,Johnson MA,Lee WT,Lynn AE,Peters G,Ronlov GS,Townsend KS

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Classical gene therapy for cystic fibrosis has had limited success because of immune response against viral vectors and short-term expression of cDNA-based transgenes. These limitations could be overcome by delivering the complete genomic CFTR gene on nonintegrating human artificial chromosomes (HACs). Here, we report...

journal_title：Human gene therapy

authors： Rocchi L,Braz C,Cattani S,Ramalho A,Christan S,Edlinger M,Ascenzioni F,Laner A,Kraner S,Amaral M,Schindelhauer D

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) has been recognized to occur during embryonic development, fibrosis, and tumor metastasis. Nuclear factor (NF)-κB plays a central role in mediating the inflammation and wound-healing responses during liver fibrogenesis. However, the involvement of NF-κB during EMT in liver c...

journal_title：Human gene therapy

authors： Kim KH,Lee WR,Kang YN,Chang YC,Park KK

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Advanced prostate cancer is invariably lethal once it becomes androgen independent (AI). With the aim of developing a new treatment we have used the human androgen-independent prostate cancer cell line, PC-3, to evaluate the effectiveness of two enzyme-directed prodrug therapy (EPT) systems as a novel means for promot...

journal_title：Human gene therapy

authors： Martiniello-Wilks R,Garcia-Aragon J,Daja MM,Russell P,Both GW,Molloy PL,Lockett LJ,Russell PJ

更新日期：1998-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The liver is an attractive target tissue for gene therapy. Current approaches for hepatic gene delivery include retroviral and adenoviral vectors, liposome/DNA, and peptide/DNA complexes. This study describes a technique for direct injection of DNA into liver that led to significant gene expression. Gene expression wa...

journal_title：Human gene therapy

authors： Hickman MA,Malone RW,Lehmann-Bruinsma K,Sih TR,Knoell D,Szoka FC,Walzem R,Carlson DM,Powell JS

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Efficient DNA electrotransfer can be achieved with combinations of short high-voltage (HV) and long low voltage (LV) pulses that cover two effects of the pulses, namely, target cell electropermeabilization and DNA electrophoresis within the tissue. Because HV and LV can be delivered with a lag up to 3000 sec between t...

journal_title：Human gene therapy

authors： Satkauskas S,André F,Bureau MF,Scherman D,Miklavcic D,Mir LM

更新日期：2005-10-01 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：:Mucopolysaccharidosis type II (MPS II) is a neuropathic lysosomal storage disorder caused by a deficiency of iduronate-2-sulfatase (IDS), which leads to the accumulation of glycosaminoglycans (GAGs). We demonstrated that biochemical alterations in the brains of MPS II mice are not corrected by bone marrow transplantat...

journal_title：Human gene therapy

authors： Wakabayashi T,Shimada Y,Akiyama K,Higuchi T,Fukuda T,Kobayashi H,Eto Y,Ida H,Ohashi T

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bag-1 exerts powerful antiapoptotic effects by binding and stabilizing Bcl-2 and interacting with the tumor necrosis factor receptor type I-induced death signal. We examined the effects of overexpression of Bag-1 by ex vivo adenoviral gene transfer on cold (4 degrees C for 24 hr) ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) injury of r...

journal_title：Human gene therapy

authors： Sawitzki B,Amersi F,Ritter T,Fisser M,Shen XD,Ke B,Busuttil R,Volk HD,Kupiec-Weglinski JW

更新日期：2002-08-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum-induced inactivation of retroviruses is the most critical limitation for in vivo gene transfer therapy. To solve this problem, we searched for reagents that protect retroviruses from inactivation. The effects of the protease inhibitors FOY-007 and FOY-305 and of an inhibitor of the complement pathway FUT-175, al...

journal_title：Human gene therapy

authors： Miyao Y,Ikenaka K,Kishima H,Tamura M,Nakamura K,Kurumi M,Hayakawa T,Shimizu K

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene-modified replication-competent adenoviruses (Ads) are emerging as a promising new modality for the treatment of cancer. We have previously shown that E1B 19kDa and E1B 55kDa gene-deleted Ad (Ad-DeltaE1B19/55) exhibits improved tumor-specific replication and cell lysis, leading to an enhanced antitumor effect. In ...

journal_title：Human gene therapy

authors： Kim J,Kim JH,Choi KJ,Kim PH,Yun CO

更新日期：2007-09-01 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：:Oncolytic measles virus (MV) encoding the human thyroidal sodium iodide symporter (MV-NIS) has proved to be safe after intraperitoneal or intravenous administration in patients with ovarian cancer or multiple myeloma, respectively, but it has not yet been administered through intratumoral injection in humans. Squamous...

journal_title：Human gene therapy

authors： Li H,Peng KW,Russell SJ

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three retroviral constructs containing a full-length human alpha-L-iduronidase (IDUA) cDNA were made. The first, pLIdSN, is designed so that expression of the IDUA cDNA is from the 5' viral long terminal repeat (LTR). The second, pLNCId, is designed to express the IDUA cDNA from the cytomegalovirus (CMV) immediate ear...

journal_title：Human gene therapy

authors： Anson DS,Bielicki J,Hopwood JJ

更新日期：1992-08-01 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：: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：:CTL lines directed against HIV-1 antigens were generated from infected individuals and were transduced by the HMB-K(b)HuIFNbeta vector, resulting in low, constitutive expression of interferon beta (IFN-beta). The IFN-beta-transduced cells showed markedly increased HIV-1-specific, MHC class I-restricted CTL activity ag...

journal_title：Human gene therapy

authors： Hadida F,De Maeyer E,Cremer I,Autran B,Baggiolini M,Debré P,Vieillard V

更新日期：1999-07-20 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：:Herpes simplex virus thymidine kinase (HSV-tk) gene therapy for brain tumors depends on ganciclovir (GCV) and its transport across the blood-brain tumor barrier (BBTB). We examined whether RMP-7, the bradykinin analog and potent BBTB permeabilizer, could enhance the efficacy of GCV treatment of brain tumors by increas...

journal_title：Human gene therapy

authors： LeMay DR,Kittaka M,Gordon EM,Gray B,Stins MF,McComb JG,Jovanovic S,Tabrizi P,Weiss MH,Bartus R,Anderson WF,Zlokovic BV

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is caused by mutations in the dystrophin gene that result in the absence of functional protein. In the majority of cases these are out-of-frame deletions that disrupt the reading frame. Several attempts have been made to restore the dystrophin mRNA reading frame by modulation of pre-m...

journal_title：Human gene therapy

authors： Arechavala-Gomeza V,Graham IR,Popplewell LJ,Adams AM,Aartsma-Rus A,Kinali M,Morgan JE,van Deutekom JC,Wilton SD,Dickson G,Muntoni F

更新日期：2007-09-01 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：:Somatic gene therapy for pulmonary diseases must be accomplished in vivo, requiring the spread of a gene transfer vector across a vast expanse of respiratory epithelium. Surfactant, a naturally occurring protein and lipid mixture used to treat the respiratory distress syndrome of prematurity, disperses rapidly and eve...

journal_title：Human gene therapy

authors： Katkin JP,Husser RC,Langston C,Welty SE

更新日期：1997-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Recombinant adeno-associated virus (rAAV)-mediated gene transfer has shown promise for treating diseases in various animal models including the mdx mouse model of Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). In many cases, however, preclinical studies in inbred mice have not successfully predicted human clinical responses. To a...

journal_title：Human gene therapy

authors： Wang Z,Allen JM,Riddell SR,Gregorevic P,Storb R,Tapscott SJ,Chamberlain JS,Kuhr CS

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immune cells are involved in the pathogenesis of osteoarthritis (OA). CD4(+) T cells were activated during the onset of OA and induced macrophage inflammatory protein (MIP)-1γ expression and subsequent osteoclast formation. We evaluated the effects of local knockdown of MIP-1γ in a mouse OA model induced by anterior c...

journal_title：Human gene therapy

authors： Shen PC,Lu CS,Shiau AL,Lee CH,Jou IM,Hsieh JL

更新日期：2013-10-01 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：:The enzyme hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferase (HGPRT) expressed by the parasite Trypanosoma brucei (Tb) can convert allopurinol, a purine analogue, to corresponding nucleotides with greater efficiency than its human homologue. We have developed a retroviral system that expresses the parasitic enzyme and te...

journal_title：Human gene therapy

authors： Trudeau C,Yuan S,Galipeau J,Benlimame N,Alaoui-Jamali MA,Batist G

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) are a potential target for the retrovirus-mediated transfer of chemotherapeutic drug resistance genes. For integration of the proviral DNA in the HSC genome cell division is required. In the bone marrow (BM) hematopoiesis occurs in the vicinity of stroma cells. Soluble stroma components...

journal_title：Human gene therapy

authors： Schiedlmeier B,Buss EC,Veldwijk MR,Zeller WJ,Fruehauf S

更新日期：1999-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Oncolytic viruses (OV) are novel cancer gene therapies that are moving toward the forefront of modern medicines. However, their full therapeutic potential is hindered by the lack of convenient and reliable strategies to visualize and quantify OV growth kinetics and therapeutic efficacy in live cells. Here, we present ...

journal_title：Human gene therapy

authors： Quillien L,Top S,Kappler S,Redouté A,Dusetti N,Quentin-Froignant C,Lulka H,Camus C,Buscail L,Gallardo F,Bertagnoli S,Cordelier P

更新日期：2021-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：:First-generation adenoviral (Ad) and high-capacity adenoviral (HC-Ad) vectors are efficient delivery vehicles for transferring therapeutic transgenes in vivo into tissues/organs. The initial successes reported with adenoviral vectors in preclinical trials have been limited by immune-related adverse side effects. This ...

journal_title：Human gene therapy

authors： Puntel M,Curtin JF,Zirger JM,Muhammad AK,Xiong W,Liu C,Hu J,Kroeger KM,Czer P,Sciascia S,Mondkar S,Lowenstein PR,Castro MG

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatic stellate cells (HSCs) are the primary cell type responsible for liver fibrogenesis. Transforming growth factor beta 1 (TGF-β1) and platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) are key profibrotic cytokines that regulate HSC activation and proliferation with functional convergence. Dual RNA interference against their ...

journal_title：Human gene therapy

authors： Jiang Y,Zhao Y,He F,Wang H

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00