Microwave irradiation enhances gene and oligonucleotide delivery and induces effective exon skipping in myoblasts.

abstract：:We have developed and tested a transfection compound based on synthetic peptides. It consists of a 12 amino acid DNA binding peptide (P2) with an alkyl group added to the aminoterminus (P2lip) and a peptide derived from the hemagglutinin protein (HA). The components aggregate spontaneously to particles that proved to ...

journal_title：Gene therapy

authors： Wilke M,Fortunati E,van den Broek M,Hoogeveen AT,Scholte BJ

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Virus-directed enzyme prodrug therapy utilizing the bacterial enzyme nitroreductase delivered by a replication-defective adenovirus vector to activate the prodrug CB1954 is a promising strategy currently undergoing clinical trials in patients with a range of cancers. Similarly, selectively replicating oncolytic adenov...

journal_title：Gene therapy

authors： Palmer DH,Chen MJ,Searle PF,Kerr DJ,Young LS

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men of the western world. To date, no effective treatment exists for metastatic prostate cancer and consequently, there is an urgent need to develop new and improved therapeutics. In recent years, the therapeutic potential of RNA interference (RNAi) has been extensively exp...

journal_title：Gene therapy

authors： Evans JC,McCarthy J,Torres-Fuentes C,Cryan JF,Ogier J,Darcy R,Watson RW,O'Driscoll CM

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene targeting by single-stranded oligodeoxyribonucleotides (ssODNs) is a promising technique for introducing site-specific sequence alterations without affecting the genomic organization of the target locus. Here, we discuss the significant progress that has been made over the last 5 years in unraveling the mechanism...

journal_title：Gene therapy

authors： Aarts M,te Riele H

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The number of clinical trials using gene transfer technology, either active or under discussion, is increasing rapidly. However, little information is available describing the regulatory procedures or safety specifications that must be considered before initiation of such trials in Europe. We describe the procedure us...

journal_title：Gene therapy

authors： Caplen NJ,Gao X,Hayes P,Elaswarapu R,Fisher G,Kinrade E,Chakera A,Schorr J,Hughes B,Dorin JR

更新日期：1994-03-01 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：:Production of retroviral vectors for clinical use requires removal of cells and cellular debris. We combined a series of filters of decreasing pore size using commercially available blood banking filters approved for clinical use. The collection bag and filters can be connected to create a sterile, closed system using...

journal_title：Gene therapy

authors： Reeves L,Cornetta K

更新日期：2000-12-01 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：:The mechanism whereby cationic lipids destabilize cell membranes to facilitate the intracellular delivery of macromolecules such as plasmid DNA or antisense oligonucleotides is not well understood. Here, we show that cationic lipids can destabilize lipid bilayers by promoting the formation of nonbilayer lipid structur...

journal_title：Gene therapy

authors： Hafez IM,Maurer N,Cullis PR

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Current generation adenovirus (Ad) vectors are deleted for the E1 region of genes and require propagation in E1 expressing 293 cells. Expression of genes delivered by Ad vectors into immunocompetent hosts is generally transient since the current vectors are not completely replication defective. Viral proteins expresse...

journal_title：Gene therapy

authors： Amalfitano A,Chamberlain JS

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We constructed a melanoma-specific oncolytic adenoviral vector Ad.MCDIRESE1.71Hsp3, in which the cytosine deaminase and adenoviral E1A genes linked by the IRES sequence were under the control of a mouse tyrosinase enhancer/promoter transcriptional element in the E1 region of the vector. We also inserted the human heat...

journal_title：Gene therapy

authors： Liu Y,Ye T,Sun D,Maynard J,Deisseroth A

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Episomally maintained self-replicating systems present attractive alternative vehicles for gene therapy applications. Recent insights into the ability of chromosomal scaffold/matrix attachment regions (S/MARs) to mediate episomal maintenance of genetic elements allowed the development of a small circular episomal vect...

journal_title：Gene therapy

authors： Papapetrou EP,Ziros PG,Micheva ID,Zoumbos NC,Athanassiadou A

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ideal methods for human gene therapy will eventually include direct gene transfer to defective tissues in a patient in vivo. Toward that goal, we have used high titer, pseudotyped retroviral vectors expressing genes for the Escherichia coli beta-galactosidase (lacZ) or hepatitis B virus surface antigen (HBsAg) to infe...

journal_title：Gene therapy

authors： Miyanohara A,Yee JK,Bouic K,LaPorte P,Friedmann T

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Schwann cells (SCs) in an injured peripheral nerve form pathways for regenerating axons. Although these cells initially support regeneration, SCs lose their pro-regenerative properties following a prolonged period of denervation. Gene transfer to SC can enhance their therapeutic potential. In this article, we compared...

journal_title：Gene therapy

authors： Hoyng SA,De Winter F,Gnavi S,van Egmond L,Attwell CL,Tannemaat MR,Verhaagen J,Malessy MJ

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vivo approaches to liver gene therapy will require restriction of transgene expression to hepatocytes. Since targeting of viral vectors exclusively to the liver is not easy to achieve, use of liver-specific promoters for driving expression of therapeutic genes is an interesting alternative. We have shown previously...

journal_title：Gene therapy

authors： Sandig V,Löser P,Lieber A,Kay MA,Strauss M

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is an X-linked, lethal muscular disorder caused by a defect in the DMD gene. AAV vector-mediated micro-dystrophin cDNA transfer is an attractive approach to treatment of DMD. To establish effective gene transfer into skeletal muscle, we examined the transduction efficiency of an AAV v...

journal_title：Gene therapy

authors： Yuasa K,Sakamoto M,Miyagoe-Suzuki Y,Tanouchi A,Yamamoto H,Li J,Chamberlain JS,Xiao X,Takeda S

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Choroidal neovascularization (CNV) leads to loss of vision in age-related macular degeneration (AMD), the leading cause of blindness in adult population over 50 years old. In this study, we developed intravenously administered, nanoparticulate, targeted nonviral retinal gene delivery systems for the management of CNV....

journal_title：Gene therapy

authors： Singh SR,Grossniklaus HE,Kang SJ,Edelhauser HF,Ambati BK,Kompella UB

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To confer adenovirus vectors (AdV), the feature of integration into the host cell genome hybrid vectors were characterized in vitro, which express vectors derived from the prototypic foamy virus (FV) in the backbone of a high-capacity AdV. FVs constitute a subfamily of retroviruses with a distinct replication pathway ...

journal_title：Gene therapy

authors： Picard-Maureau M,Kreppel F,Lindemann D,Juretzek T,Herchenröder O,Rethwilm A,Kochanek S,Heinkelein M

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemically inducible gene switches that regulate expression of endogenous genes have multiple applications for basic gene expression research and gene therapy. Single-chain zinc-finger transcription factors that utilize either estrogen receptor homodimers or retinoid X receptor-alpha/ecdysone receptor heterodimers are...

journal_title：Gene therapy

authors： Magnenat L,Schwimmer LJ,Barbas CF 3rd

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapies have demonstrated durable and potentially curative therapeutic efficacy against B-cell leukemia in clinical trials. A CAR strategy can target any tumor surface antigens as long as an antigen-binding receptor can be generated. New CARs that target solid tumors and have t...

journal_title：Gene therapy

authors： Wu MR,Zhang T,DeMars LR,Sentman CL

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene therapy is a potential new strategy for the treatment of cardiovascular disease. The most efficacious method of gene delivery remains a key hurdle to effective gene therapy. We present the application of a novel, nonviral gene delivery system (TerplexDNA) to augment myocardial transfection. The hearts of New Zeal...

journal_title：Gene therapy

authors： Affleck DG,Yu L,Bull DA,Bailey SH,Kim SW

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is currently an urgent need to develop efficient gene-delivery systems for the lung that are free of inflammatory effects. The LID vector is a synthetic gene delivery system, comprised of lipofectin (L), an integrin-targeting peptide (I) and DNA (D) that has previously been shown to have high transfection effici...

journal_title：Gene therapy

authors： Jenkins RG,Meng QH,Hodges RJ,Lee LK,Bottoms SE,Laurent GJ,Willis D,Ayazi Shamlou P,McAnulty RJ,Hart SL

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The efficient delivery of genetic material to the developing fetal brain represents a powerful research tool and a means to supply therapy in a number of neonatal lethal neurological disorders. In this study, we have delivered vectors based upon adenovirus serotype 5 (Ad5) and adeno-associated virus (AAV) pseudotypes ...

journal_title：Gene therapy

authors： Rahim AA,Wong AM,Ahmadi S,Hoefer K,Buckley SM,Hughes DA,Nathwani AN,Baker AH,McVey JH,Cooper JD,Waddington SN

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene transfer to airway epithelia with amphotropic pseudotyped retroviral vectors is inefficient following apical vector application. To better understand this inefficiency, we localized the expression of Pit2, the amphotropic receptor, in polarized human airway epithelia. Pit2 was expressed on both the apical and bas...

journal_title：Gene therapy

authors： Wang G,Williams G,Xia H,Hickey M,Shao J,Davidson BL,McCray PB

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to restrict gene delivery and expression to particular cell types is of paramount importance for many types of gene therapy, especially in the lung. The alveolar epithelial type I (ATI) cell, in particular, is an attractive cell type to target, as it comprises 95% of the internal surface area of the lung. ...

journal_title：Gene therapy

authors： Gottfried L,Lin X,Barravecchia M,Dean DA

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rescue of dystrophic skeletal muscle in mdx and utrophin/dystrophin-deficient (dko) mouse models by reintroduction of dystrophin has validated gene therapy as a potential therapeutic approach for Duchenne muscular dystrophy. However, the size of the dystrophin gene exceeds the capacity of adeno-associated viral (AAV) ...

journal_title：Gene therapy

authors： Gardner KL,Kearney JA,Edwards JD,Rafael-Fortney JA

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human adipose tissue mesenchymal stromal cells (AMSCs) share common traits, including similar differentiation potential and cell surface markers, with their bone marrow counterparts. Owing to their general availability, higher abundance and ease of isolation AMSCs may be convenient autologous delivery vehicles for loc...

journal_title：Gene therapy

authors： Vilalta M,Dégano IR,Bagó J,Aguilar E,Gambhir SS,Rubio N,Blanco J

更新日期：2009-04-01 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：:The role of two receptors, previously proposed to mediate the entry of adenoviruses into human cells, the coxsackie and adenovirus receptor (CAR) and the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I heavy chain has been investigated. The expression of MHC class I in many tumours is reduced or absent, therefore if th...

journal_title：Gene therapy

authors： McDonald D,Stockwin L,Matzow T,Blair Zajdel ME,Blair GE

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rhesus macaque tripartite motif (TRIM)5alpha potently inhibits early stages of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-1 replication, while the human orthologue has little effect on this virus. We used PCR-based random mutagenesis to construct a large library of human TRIM5alpha variants containing mutations in the PRYSPRY...

journal_title：Gene therapy

authors： Pham QT,Bouchard A,Grütter MG,Berthoux L

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00