Plasmid DNA encoding targeted naturally processed peptides generates protective cytotoxic T lymphocyte responses in immunized animals.

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：:Cell therapies are treatments in which stem or progenitor cells are stimulated to differentiate into specialized cells able to home to and repair damaged tissues. After their discovery, endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs) stimulated worldwide interest as possible vehicles to perform autologous cell therapy of tumors. ...

journal_title：Human gene therapy

authors： Laurenzana A,Margheri F,Chillà A,Biagioni A,Margheri G,Calorini L,Fibbi G,Del Rosso M

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Atrogin-1 or muscle atrophy F-box (MAFbx) is a major atrophy-related E3 ubiquitin ligase highly expressed in skeletal muscle during muscle atrophy and other disease states such as sepsis, cancer cachexia, and fasting. In this paper, we report experiments inhibiting MAFbx activity in fasting mice and in the skeletal my...

journal_title：Human gene therapy

authors： Cong H,Sun L,Liu C,Tien P

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fabry disease, caused by a deficiency of lysosomal enzyme alpha-galactosidase A (alpha-gal A), is one of the inherited disorders potentially treatable by gene transfer to hematopoietic stem cells. In this study, a high-titer amphotropic retroviral producer cell line, MFG-alpha-gal A, was established. CD34+ cells from ...

journal_title：Human gene therapy

authors： Takiyama N,Dunigan JT,Vallor MJ,Kase R,Sakuraba H,Barranger JA

更新日期：1999-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Adeno-associated virus (AAV) vector technology is rapidly advancing and becoming not only the leading vector platform in the field of gene therapy but also a useful tool for functional genomic studies of novel proteins. As most vectors utilize constitutive promoters, this results in transgene expression during product...

journal_title：Human gene therapy

authors： Guimaro MC,Afione SA,Tanaka T,Chiorini JA

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Guidelines for testing gene therapy products for ecotropic replication-competent retrovirus (Eco-RCR) have not been delineated as they have for amphotropic viruses. To evaluate biologic assays that can detect these viruses, we compared an S(+)/L(-) assay and a marker rescue assay designed specifically for Eco-RCR dete...

journal_title：Human gene therapy

authors： Reeves L,Duffy L,Koop S,Fyffe J,Cornetta K

更新日期：2002-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene transfer of the herpes simplex virus thymidine kinase (TK) gene associated with ganciclovir (GCV) treatment can lead to death of TK-expressing cells, and of neighboring TK- cells because of the bystander effect. Thus, a small proportion of TK+ cells in a tumor can lead to its complete regression after GCV treatme...

journal_title：Human gene therapy

authors： Qiao J,Black ME,Caruso M

更新日期：2000-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Foamy virus (FV) vectors are a promising gene delivery system for use in hematopoietic stem cell gene therapy. Previous FV vector marking studies in the NOD/SCID xenotransplantation model used umbilical cord blood (UCB)-derived SCID repopulating cells (SRCs) that were assayed 5-10 weeks posttransplantation. We now rep...

journal_title：Human gene therapy

authors： Josephson NC,Trobridge G,Russell DW

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hepatocarcinoma-intestine-pancreas (HIP) gene, also called pancreatitis-associated protein-1 (PAP1) or Reg IIIalpha, is activated in most human hepatocellular carcinomas (HCCs) but not in normal liver, which suggests that HIP regulatory sequence could be used as efficient liver tumor-specific promoters to express ...

journal_title：Human gene therapy

authors： Hervé J,Cunha AS,Liu B,Valogne Y,Longuet M,Boisgard R,Brégerie O,Roux J,Guettier C,Calès P,Tavitian B,Samuel D,Clerc J,Bréchot C,Faivre J

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to assess the therapeutic potential of injecting the gene for HLA-B7/beta2-microglobulin into the subcutaneous metastatic nodules of patients who are refractory to conventional treatments. The nine patients evaluated were divided into three groups and given escalating doses of DNA (20, 40...

journal_title：Human gene therapy

authors： Heo DS,Yoon SJ,Kim WS,Lee KH,Seol JG,Lee SG,Jung CW,Cho EK,Kim CW,Park MH,Sung MW,Kim KH,Bang YJ,Kim NK

更新日期：1998-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Doxycycline (DOX) is widely used as a pharmacological agent and as an effector molecule in inducible gene expression systems. For most applications, it is important to determine whether the DOX concentration reaches the level required for optimal efficacy. We developed a sensitive bioassay for measuring the DOX concen...

journal_title：Human gene therapy

authors： Kleibeuker W,Zhou X,Centlivre M,Legrand N,Page M,Almond N,Berkhout B,Das AT

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:At present, much more studies have focused on the role of microRNAs in osteoporosis, but the more specific role of microRNA-150-3p (miR-150-3p) in osteoporosis still needs full exploration. We aim at investigating the role of miR-150-3p in osteoporosis and at exploring the related mechanisms. Bone marrow mesenchymal s...

journal_title：Human gene therapy

authors： Qiu M,Zhai S,Fu Q,Liu D

更新日期：2021-01-22 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：:Therapeutic levels of expression of the beta-globin gene have been difficult to achieve with conventional retroviral vectors without the inclusion of DNase I-hypersensitive site (HS2, HS3, and HS4) enhancer elements. We generated recombinant adeno-associated viral (AAV) vectors carrying an antisickling human beta-glob...

journal_title：Human gene therapy

authors： Maina N,Zhong L,Li X,Zhao W,Han Z,Bischof D,Aslanidi G,Zolotukhin S,Weigel-Van Aken KA,Rivers AE,Slayton WB,Yoder MC,Srivastava A

更新日期：2008-04-01 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：:Low in vivo transduction efficiency and safety concerns have been hurdles for effective hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) gene therapy. Here, we investigate whether the safety and efficiency of retroviral gene transfer into HSCs can be improved by using human allogeneic umbilical cord blood (UCB)-derived supplements inste...

journal_title：Human gene therapy

authors： Moon N,Yang SJ,Park BB,Chung YS,Lee JW,Oh IH

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene-modified lymphocytes have a potential role in the therapy of cancer, infectious diseases, and genetic disorders of the immune system. Current gene therapy protocols involving gene transfer into lymphocytes utilize retroviruses with amphotropic envelope proteins. However, transduction efficiencies in lymphocytes u...

journal_title：Human gene therapy

authors： Lam JS,Reeves ME,Cowherd R,Rosenberg SA,Hwu P

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gyrate atrophy is a progressive blindness associated with deficiency of ornithine aminotransferase (OAT). The strategy of using an autologous keratinocyte graft, modified to express high levels of OAT as an ornithine-catabolizing skin-based enzyme sink, is investigated. Two OAT-containing retroviral vectors were const...

journal_title：Human gene therapy

authors： Jensen TG,Sullivan DM,Morgan RA,Taichman LB,Nussenblatt RB,Blaese RM,Csaky KG

更新日期：1997-11-20 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：:Replication-deficient viral vectors are currently being used in gene transfer strategies to treat cancer cells. Unfortunately, viruses are limited in their ability to diffuse through tissue. This makes it virtually impossible to infect the majority of tumor cells in vivo and results in inadequate gene transfer. This p...

journal_title：Human gene therapy

authors： Han JS,Qian D,Wicha MS,Clarke MF

更新日期：1998-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Naked plasmid DNA electrotransfer offers advantages over viral-based gene delivery, including being regulatory permissive, but factors influencing expression efficiency and cell fate impact on translational utility. This study compared co-expression of red and green fluorescence reporter plasmids with differing promot...

journal_title：Human gene therapy

authors： Pinyon JL,Klugmann M,Lovell NH,Housley GD

更新日期：2019-02-01 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：: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：:Interleukin-12 (IL-12) is a cytokine that exhibits pleiotropic effects on lymphocytes and natural killer cells and has been shown to have promise for the immunotherapy of cancer. The combination of the immune costimulatory molecule B7.1 and IL-12 has been shown to be synergistic for T cell activation. By transfecting ...

journal_title：Human gene therapy

authors： Anderson R,Macdonald I,Corbett T,Hacking G,Lowdell MW,Prentice HG

更新日期：1997-06-10 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：:Twenty-eight patients with advanced neovascular age-related macular degeneration (AMD) were given a single intravitreous injection of an E1-, partial E3-, E4-deleted adenoviral vector expressing human pigment epithelium- derived factor (AdPEDF.11). Doses ranging from 10(6) to 10(9.5) particle units (PU) were investiga...

journal_title：Human gene therapy

authors： Campochiaro PA,Nguyen QD,Shah SM,Klein ML,Holz E,Frank RN,Saperstein DA,Gupta A,Stout JT,Macko J,DiBartolomeo R,Wei LL

更新日期：2006-02-01 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：:Adrenomedullin (AM) has been shown to protect against ischemia/reperfusion-induced myocardial infarction and apoptosis. In the present study, we examined the potential neuroprotective action of delayed AM gene transfer in cerebral ischemia. Three days after a 1-hr occlusion of the middle cerebral artery (MCAO), rats w...

journal_title：Human gene therapy

authors： Xia CF,Yin H,Borlongan CV,Chao J,Chao L

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa (DEB) comprises a family of inherited blistering skin disorders for which no corrective therapy currently exists. In the most severe form, the Hallopeau-Siemens subtype (RDEB-HS), the epidermal adhesion protein collagen VII is absent from the skin as a consequence of null mutations in ...

journal_title：Human gene therapy

authors： Mecklenbeck S,Compton SH,Mejía JE,Cervini R,Hovnanian A,Bruckner-Tuderman L,Barrandon Y

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in the gene encoding the peroxisomal ATP-binding cassette transporter (ABCD1) cause elevations in very long-chain fatty acids (VLCFAs) and the neurodegenerative disease adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD). In most adults, this manifests as the spinal cord axonopathy adrenomyeloneuropathy (AMN). A challenge in virus-b...

journal_title：Human gene therapy

authors： Gong Y,Berenson A,Laheji F,Gao G,Wang D,Ng C,Volak A,Kok R,Kreouzis V,Dijkstra IM,Kemp S,Maguire CA,Eichler F

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00