Rapid identification of viable retrovirus-transduced cells using the green fluorescent protein as a marker.

abstract：:The insertion of suicide genes in donor T lymphocytes constitutes the basis of new approaches aiming at the treatment of the graft-versus-host disease (GVHD), a frequent complication in recipients of allogeneic haematopoietic grafts. In this study we investigated the impact that the ex vivo manipulation required for t...

journal_title：Gene therapy

authors： Lamana ML,Bueren JA,Vicario JL,Balas A

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lentivirus can be engineered to be a highly potent vector for gene therapy applications. However, generation of clinical grade vectors in enough quantities for therapeutic use is still troublesome and limits the preclinical and clinical experiments. As a first step to solve this unmet need we recently introduced a bac...

journal_title：Gene therapy

authors： Lesch HP,Laitinen A,Peixoto C,Vicente T,Makkonen KE,Laitinen L,Pikkarainen JT,Samaranayake H,Alves PM,Carrondo MJ,Ylä-Herttuala S,Airenne KJ

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Constitutive expression of short hairpin RNAs (shRNAs) may cause cellular toxicity in vivo and using microRNA (miRNA) scaffolds can circumvent this problem. Previously, we have shown that embedding small interfering RNA sequences targeting apolipoprotein B100 (ApoB) in shRNA (shApoB) or miRNA (miApoB) scaffolds result...

journal_title：Gene therapy

authors： Maczuga P,Verheij J,van der Loos C,van Logtenstein R,Hooijer G,Martier R,Borel F,Lubelski J,Koornneef A,Blits B,van Deventer S,Petry H,Konstantinova P

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sodium iodide symporter (NIS) mediates iodide uptake into thyrocytes and is the molecular basis of thyroid radioiodine therapy. We previously have shown that NIS gene transfer into the F98 rat gliomas facilitated tumor imaging and increased survival by radioiodine. In this study, we show that: (1) the therapeutic ...

journal_title：Gene therapy

authors： Shen DH,Marsee DK,Schaap J,Yang W,Cho JY,Hinkle G,Nagaraja HN,Kloos RT,Barth RF,Jhiang SM

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The production of high-titer recombinant adeno-associated virus (rAAV) vector is essential for treatment of genetic diseases affecting the retina and choroid, where anatomical constraints may limit injectable volumes. Problematically, cytotoxicity arising from overexpression of the transgene during vector production f...

journal_title：Gene therapy

authors： Reid CA,Boye SL,Hauswirth WW,Lipinski DM

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell surface targeting of recombinant adeno-associated virus (rAAV) vectors is an attractive strategy to modify AAV's natural tropism. As modification of the capsid surface is likely to affect the mechanism of vector internalization and consequently the vector's intracellular fate, we investigated early steps in cell ...

journal_title：Gene therapy

authors： Uhrig S,Coutelle O,Wiehe T,Perabo L,Hallek M,Büning H

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatic sequestration of systemically administered adenoviral vectors reduces the number of viral particles available for delivery to other tissues. The biological basis of this phenomenon was investigated using a new in vivo technique which permitted imaging in real time. Recombinant adenovirus serotype 5 knob (Ad5K)...

journal_title：Gene therapy

authors： Zinn KR,Douglas JT,Smyth CA,Liu HG,Wu Q,Krasnykh VN,Mountz JD,Curiel DT,Mountz JM

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chimeric oligonucleotides have been used successfully to correct point and frameshift mutations in several cell types, as well as in animal and plant models. However, their application to primitive human blood cells has been limited. In this investigation, chimeric oligonucleotides designed to direct a site-specific n...

journal_title：Gene therapy

authors： Liu H,Agarwal S,Kmiec E,Davis BR

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With the long-term goal of developing a gene-based treatment for osteoarthritis (OA), we performed studies to evaluate the equine joint as a model for adeno-associated virus (AAV)-mediated gene transfer to large, weight-bearing human joints. A self-complementary AAV2 vector containing the coding regions for human inte...

journal_title：Gene therapy

authors： Watson RS,Broome TA,Levings PP,Rice BL,Kay JD,Smith AD,Gouze E,Gouze JN,Dacanay EA,Hauswirth WW,Nickerson DM,Dark MJ,Colahan PT,Ghivizzani SC

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By-pass surgery and percutaneous transluminal (coronary) angioplasty, PT(C)A, are standard techniques for the treatment of vascular occlusions. Their usefulness is limited by by-pass graft failure and restenosis occurring after the procedures. Twenty percent of patients treated with PTCA/PTA need a new revascularizati...

journal_title：Gene therapy

authors： Rutanen J,Puhakka H,Ylä-Herttuala S

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA interference (RNAi) is an evolutionarily conserved process by which plants and animals protect their genomes utilizing small, double-stranded RNAs to degrade target RNAs in a sequence-specific manner. Post-transcriptional gene silencing by these moieties can lead to degradation of both cellular and viral RNAs. It ...

journal_title：Gene therapy

authors： Zhou N,Fang J,Mukhtar M,Acheampong E,Pomerantz RJ

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was designed to evaluate the utility of positron emission tomography (PET) to quantify the magnitude and spatial distribution of transgene expression after different methods of adenoviral vector delivery (with surfactant- and saline-based vehicles) within rat lungs. In all, 17 animals (eight in the surfacta...

journal_title：Gene therapy

authors： Richard JC,Factor P,Welch LC,Schuster DP

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Retroviral vectors are effective shuttle systems by introducing therapeutically relevant genes stably into the genome of proliferating cells. The majority of vectors applied for research or clinical applications use neomycin for cell selection and identification. To circumvent the time consuming and potentially toxic ...

journal_title：Gene therapy

authors： Machl AW,Planitzer S,Kubbies M

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel method of in vivo targeted gene transfer to intentionally selected areas of the corneal endothelium was developed. Plasmid DNA with the lacZ gene coding for beta-galactosidase was injected into the anterior chamber of adult Wistar rats, and eight pulses of electricity at intensities ranging from 5 to 40 V/cm w...

journal_title：Gene therapy

authors： Oshima Y,Sakamoto T,Yamanaka I,Nishi T,Ishibashi T,Inomata H

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adoptive cell therapy with chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-modified T cells showed remarkable therapeutic efficacy in the treatment of leukaemia/lymphoma. However, the application to a variety of cancer entities is often constricted by the non-availability of a single chain antibody (scFv), which is usually the target...

journal_title：Gene therapy

authors： Faitschuk E,Nagy V,Hombach AA,Abken H

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As soon as RNA interference (RNAi) was found to work in mammalian cells, research quickly focused on harnessing this powerful endogenous and specific mechanism of gene silencing for human therapy. RNAi uses small RNAs, less than 30 nucleotides in length, to suppress expression of genes with complementary sequences. Tw...

journal_title：Gene therapy

authors： Dykxhoorn DM,Palliser D,Lieberman J

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The CMV promoter drives high transgene expression and is one of the most commonly used promoters for gene transfer. Tissue-specific mammalian promoters provide an alternative, and it would be useful to have a system to directly compare them to viral promoters free from potential confounding vector-related effects. In ...

journal_title：Gene therapy

authors： Kachi S,Esumi N,Zack DJ,Campochiaro PA

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For many gene therapy applications the effective titre of retroviral vectors is a limiting factor both in vitro and in vivo. Purification and concentration of retrovirus from packaging cell supernatant can overcome this problem. To this end we have investigated a novel procedure which involves complexing retrovirus to...

journal_title：Gene therapy

authors： Darling D,Hughes C,Galea-Lauri J,Gäken J,Trayner ID,Kuiper M,Farzaneh F

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have compared the efficacy of daily injection of recombinant leptin protein (rh-leptin) with adenovirus-mediated delivery of the murine or human leptin gene (Ad-leptin) for treatment of obesity in the obese (ob/ob) mouse model. We demonstrate an improved correction profile for obesity and associated surrogate marke...

journal_title：Gene therapy

authors： Morsy MA,Gu MC,Zhao JZ,Holder DJ,Rogers IT,Pouch WJ,Motzel SL,Klein HJ,Gupta SK,Liang X,Tota MR,Rosenblum CI,Caskey CT

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) is an incretin hormone that regulates blood glucose level post-prandially. It has been proposed that GLP-1 can be used in type 2 diabetes (T2D) mellitus treatment because of its insulinotropic action. Despite its remarkable advantages, GLP-1 suffers the disadvantage of an extremely shor...

journal_title：Gene therapy

authors： Jean M,Alameh M,Buschmann MD,Merzouki A

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasma apolipoprotein AI (apoAI) and lecithin-cholesterol acyltransferase (LCAT) play important roles in reverse cholesterol transport, promoting the removal of excess cholesterol from peripheral cells and reducing formation of atherosclerotic lesions. Gene augmentation of either apoAI or LCAT, or both, are thus attra...

journal_title：Gene therapy

authors： Fan L,Drew J,Dunckley MG,Owen JS,Dickson G

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Therapeutic RNA interference (RNAi) has emerged as a promising approach for the treatment of many incurable diseases, including cancer, infectious disease or neurodegenerative disorders. Demonstration of efficacy and safety in animal models is necessary before planning human application. Our group and others have prev...

journal_title：Gene therapy

authors： Martin JN,Wolken N,Brown T,Dauer WT,Ehrlich ME,Gonzalez-Alegre P

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Advances in islet transplantation have encouraged efforts to create alternative insulin-secreting cells that overcome limitations associated with current therapies. We have recently demonstrated durable correction of murine and porcine diabetes by syngeneic and autologous implantation, respectively, of primary hepatoc...

journal_title：Gene therapy

authors： Chen NK,Tan SY,Udolph G,Kon OL

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recombinant adenoviruses (Ad) are attractive vectors for gene transfer in vitro and in vivo. However, the widely used E1-deleted vectors as well as newer generation vectors contain viral sequences, including transcriptional elements for viral gene expression. These viral regulatory elements can interfere with heterolo...

journal_title：Gene therapy

authors： Steinwaerder DS,Lieber A

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An invasive Escherichia coli expressing the inv gene from Yersinia pseudotuberculosis was used as a vector for protein delivery to mammalian epithelial cells. Upon incubation with beta1-integrin-expressing mammalian cells, the bacteria are internalized, allowing bacteria-encoded proteins to function from within the ma...

journal_title：Gene therapy

authors： Critchley RJ,Jezzard S,Radford KJ,Goussard S,Lemoine NR,Grillot-Courvalin C,Vassaux G

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Different lipids and cationic polymers were tested in vitro for their ability to transfect rabbit aortic smooth muscle cells and human endothelial cells with lacZ marker gene. Toxicity of the complexes was evaluated with MTT assay. Selected plasmid-polymer complexes with different charge ratios were then tested for in...

journal_title：Gene therapy

authors： Turunen MP,Hiltunen MO,Ruponen M,Virkamäki L,Szoka FC Jr,Urtti A,Ylä-Herttuala S

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A recombinant adeno-associated virus (rAAV) vector was used to overexpress the anti-apoptotic Bcl-2-family protein, BCL-w, in rat brain. Three weeks after injecting the vector into cerebral cortex and striatum on one side, temporary focal ischemia was induced by occlusion of the ipsilateral middle cerebral artery for ...

journal_title：Gene therapy

authors： Sun Y,Jin K,Clark KR,Peel A,Mao XO,Chang Q,Simon RP,Greenberg DA

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mouse is widely used as a model for DNA therapy and vaccination even though the efficiency of DNA delivery in higher mammals and humans is much less. The human APOBEC3 (A3) enzymes impact viral genomes by cytidine deamination, which introduces multiple uridine residues into single-stranded DNA, a process known as ...

journal_title：Gene therapy

authors： Kostrzak A,Henry M,Demoyen PL,Wain-Hobson S,Vartanian JP

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The E1 deleted adenoviral vectors are efficient at gene transfer to cells in culture or in animals. However, their use is limited because of an immune-mediated loss of transduced cells. This immune response is believed to result from low-level production of viral antigens from these vectors after gene transfer. The ea...

journal_title：Gene therapy

authors： Scaria A,Curiel DT,Kay MA

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Confinement of transgene expression to target cells is highly desirable in gene therapy. Current strategies of transcriptional targeting to tumors usually rely on tissue-specific promoters to control gene expression. However, such promoters generally have much lower activity than the constitutive viral promoters. We h...

journal_title：Gene therapy

authors： Fu X,Meng F,Tao L,Jin A,Zhang X

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00