Electroporation-mediated delivery of a naked DNA plasmid expressing VEGF to the porcine heart enhances protein expression.

abstract：:The progression of chronic renal diseases is considered as an irreversible process that eventually leads to end-stage renal failure characterized by extensive tissue fibrosis. At present, chronic renal fibrosis is incurable and the incidence of affected patients is on the rise worldwide. In this study, we demonstrate ...

journal_title：Gene therapy

authors： Yang J,Dai C,Liu Y

更新日期：2001-10-01 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：:We report on systemic delivery and long-term biological effects of apolipoprotein E (apoE) obtained by intramuscular (i.m.) plasmid DNA injection. ApoE plays an important role in lipoprotein catabolism and apoE knock-out mice develop severe hypercholesterolemia and diffuse atherosclerosis. We have injected apoE-defici...

journal_title：Gene therapy

authors： Rinaldi M,Catapano AL,Parrella P,Ciafrè SA,Signori E,Seripa D,Uboldi P,Antonini R,Ricci G,Farace MG,Fazio VM

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Substantial advances in our understanding of lentivirus lifecycles and their various constituent proteins have permitted the bioengineering of lentiviral vectors now considered safe enough for clinical trials for both lethal and non-lethal diseases. They possess distinct properties that make them particularly suitable...

journal_title：Gene therapy

authors： Balaggan KS,Ali RR

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have shown that various forms of oligonucleotides, chimeric RNA-DNA oligonucleotide (RDO) and single-stranded oligodeoxynucleotide (ODN), are capable of chromosomal gene alterations in mammalian cells. Using two ODNs we corrected an inactivating mutation in the tyrosinase gene and introduced an activating mutation ...

journal_title：Gene therapy

authors： Alexeev V,Igoucheva O,Yoon K

更新日期：2002-12-01 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：:Inadequate antiprotease activity in the lungs due to alpha-1-antitrypsin (A1AT) deficiency is a factor of early-onset emphysema. We propose a new approach to gene therapy that involves the intratracheal delivery of macrophages expressing human A1AT (hA1AT). Recombinant adeno-associated virus (rAAV) plasmids encoding t...

journal_title：Gene therapy

authors： Zhang D,Wu M,Nelson DE,Pasula R,Martin WJ 2nd

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Numerous approaches in gene therapy of human cancers are focused on the establishment of cell type specific or inducible expression vectors allowing the targeted and regulated expression of therapeutic genes. Various conditionally active vectors have been created carrying promoters responding to certain factors or the...

journal_title：Gene therapy

authors： Walther W,Wendt J,Stein U

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We introduce a lung inflation-fixation protocol to examine the distribution and gene transfer efficiency of fluorescently tagged lipoplexes using fluorescence confocal microscopy within thick lung tissue sections. Using this technique, we tested the hypothesis that factors related to lipoplex distribution were the pre...

journal_title：Gene therapy

authors： Uyechi LS,Gagné L,Thurston G,Szoka FC Jr

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulated expression of therapeutic genes is required for long-term gene therapy applications for many disorders. Here we describe a doxycycline (dox)-regulated lentiviral vector system consisting of two HIV-1-based self-inactivating viruses. One of the vectors is constitutively expressing a novel improved version of ...

journal_title：Gene therapy

authors： Koponen JK,Kankkonen H,Kannasto J,Wirth T,Hillen W,Bujard H,Ylä-Herttuala S

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reactive oxygen species (ROS) have been implicated in the pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), while antioxidant enzymes, such as extracellular superoxide dismutase (EC-SOD) and catalase, block radical-induced events. The present study tested if the ex vivo transfer of EC-SOD and catalase genes alone or in combi...

journal_title：Gene therapy

authors： Dai L,Claxson A,Marklund SL,Feakins R,Yousaf N,Chernajovsky Y,Winyard PG

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Improving the therapeutic potential of adenoviral (Ad) suicide gene therapy has become an area of intense investigation since the inception of gene therapy strategies for cancer treatment. Poor efficiency of gene transfer to target tissues has become one of the most important limitations to Ad-based gene therapy. Sinc...

journal_title：Gene therapy

authors： Lanuti M,Kouri CE,Force S,Chang M,Amin K,Xu K,Blair I,Kaiser L,Albelda S

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I) and its receptor (IGF-IR) are essential for normal ocular development and are expressed in numerous ocular cell types including lens epithelial cells, retinal pigment epithelial cells, Müller cells and endothelial cells. Endothelial cell proliferation is a common feature of prolife...

journal_title：Gene therapy

authors： Shaw LC,Pan H,Afzal A,Calzi SL,Spoerri PE,Sullivan SM,Grant MB

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Replicating viruses for cancer gene therapy have beneficial antitumor effects, however, in the setting of an enzyme/prodrug system, the interactions between these viruses and the activated agents are complex. A replicating vaccinia virus expressing the cytosine deaminase gene (VVCD), which converts the prodrug 5-FC in...

journal_title：Gene therapy

authors： McCart JA,Puhlmann M,Lee J,Hu Y,Libutti SK,Alexander HR,Bartlett DL

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RNAi represents a powerful technology to specifically downregulate the expression of target genes. For cancer research and therapy, an efficient in vivo delivery system is supposed to distribute RNAi to all tumour cells upon systemic administration. We present replication-competent murine leukaemia virus (MLV) vectors...

journal_title：Gene therapy

authors： Schaser T,Wrede C,Duerner L,Sliva K,Cichutek K,Schnierle B,Buchholz CJ

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CC-chemokine receptor (CCR)-5 is the principal coreceptor for the entry of macrophage (M)-tropic HIV-1 viruses into a cell, while CXC-chemokine receptor (CXCR)-4 is the principal coreceptor for T cell line (T)-tropic HIV-1. In this study, we utilized a novel intracellular chemokine (intrakine) strategy to co-inactivat...

journal_title：Gene therapy

authors： Bai X,Chen JD,Yang AG,Torti F,Chen SY

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellular immunity against cancer can be achieved with viral vector- and DNA-based immunizations. In preclinical studies, cancer vaccines are very potent, but in clinical trials these potencies are not achieved yet. Thus, a rational approach to improve cancer vaccines is warranted. We previously demonstrated that the r...

journal_title：Gene therapy

authors： Ip PP,Boerma A,Walczak M,Oosterhuis K,Haanen JB,Schumacher TN,Nijman HW,Daemen T

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in GJB2, which codes for the gap junction (GJ) protein connexin26 (Cx26), are the most common causes of human nonsyndromic hereditary deafness. We inoculated modified adeno-associated viral (AAV) vectors into the scala media of early postnatal conditional Gjb2 knockout mice to drive exogenous Cx26 expression...

journal_title：Gene therapy

authors： Yu Q,Wang Y,Chang Q,Wang J,Gong S,Li H,Lin X

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adoptive immunotherapy of cancer using chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-engineered T cells with redirected specificity showed efficacy in recent trials. In preclinical models, 'second-generation' CARs with CD28 costimulatory domain in addition to CD3ζ performed superior in redirecting T-cell effector functions and surv...

journal_title：Gene therapy

authors： Chmielewski M,Hombach AA,Abken H

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aptamers are oligonucleotides evolved in vitro or in nature to bind target ligands with high affinity and specificity. They are emerging as powerful tools in the fields of therapeutics, drug development, target validation and diagnostics. Aptamers are attractive alternatives to antibody- and small-molecule-based thera...

journal_title：Gene therapy

authors： Que-Gewirth NS,Sullenger BA

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To induce RNA interference (RNAi), either small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) are directly introduced into the cell or short hairpin RNAs (shRNAs) are expressed from a DNA vector. At present, shRNAs are commonly synthesized by RNA polymerase III (Pol III) promoters of the H1 and U6 RNAs. In this study, we designed and cha...

journal_title：Gene therapy

authors： Choy EY,Kok KH,Tsao SW,Jin DY

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Breast cancer is the leading cancer diagnosed in women and the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths in women. Current limitations to standard chemotherapy in the clinic are extensively researched, including problems arising from repeated treatments with the same drugs. The phenomenon that cancer cells become ...

journal_title：Gene therapy

authors： Jones SK,Merkel OM

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intramuscular (i.m.) injection of a plasmid encoding human carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) elicited immunity against transplanted syngeneic (C57BL/6) CEA-positive Lewis lung carcinoma (CEA/LLC) cells, but tumors still appeared in all mice. In wild-type mice, coinjection of an IL-12 plasmid markedly enhanced anti-CEA hu...

journal_title：Gene therapy

authors： Song K,Chang Y,Prud'homme GJ

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bone marrow stromal cells (MSCs) are pluripotent cells capable of differentiation into several tissue types. This present study was performed to determine their functional neoangiogenic potential in vivo. Whole bone marrow was harvested from C57Bl/6 mice, and the adherent cellular fraction was culture expanded for 14 ...

journal_title：Gene therapy

authors： Al-Khaldi A,Eliopoulos N,Martineau D,Lejeune L,Lachapelle K,Galipeau J

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The efficiency with which adenoviral vectors infect airway epithelial cells in vivo is unclear despite extensive preclinical and clinical studies. Our hypothesis is that gene transfer is limited by vector internalization which is mediated by binding of a fiber with a cellular receptor and the RGD motif of the penton b...

journal_title：Gene therapy

authors： Goldman M,Su Q,Wilson JM

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recombinant adeno-associated virus (rAAV) vectors are attractive candidates for the treatment of inherited and acquired retinal disease. Although rAAV vectors are well characterized in rodent models, a prerequisite to their clinical application in human patients is the thorough evaluation of their efficacy and safety ...

journal_title：Gene therapy

authors： Bainbridge JW,Mistry A,Schlichtenbrede FC,Smith A,Broderick C,De Alwis M,Georgiadis A,Taylor PM,Squires M,Sethi C,Charteris D,Thrasher AJ,Sargan D,Ali RR

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conditionally replicating adenoviruses (CRAd) are a promising class of gene therapy agents that can overcome already known glioblastoma (GBM) resistance mechanisms but have limited distribution upon direct intratumoral (i.t.) injection. Collagen bundles in the extracellular matrix (ECM) have an important role in inhib...

journal_title：Gene therapy

authors： Thaci B,Ulasov IV,Ahmed AU,Ferguson SD,Han Y,Lesniak MS

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Citrullinemia type 1 (CTLN1) is an autosomal recessive disorder of metabolism caused by a deficiency of argininosuccinate synthetase. Despite optimal management, CTLN1 patients still suffer from lethal metabolic instability and experience life-threatening episodes of acute hyperammonemia. A murine model of CTLN1 (fold...

journal_title：Gene therapy

authors： Chandler RJ,Tarasenko TN,Cusmano-Ozog K,Sun Q,Sutton VR,Venditti CP,McGuire PJ

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bone marrow presents an attractive option for the treatment of articular cartilage defects as it is readily accessible, it contains mesenchymal progenitor cells that can undergo chondrogenic differentiation and, once coagulated, it provides a natural scaffold that contains the cells within the defect. This study was p...

journal_title：Gene therapy

authors： Ivkovic A,Pascher A,Hudetz D,Maticic D,Jelic M,Dickinson S,Loparic M,Haspl M,Windhager R,Pecina M

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recent surge of DNA sequence information resulting from the efforts of agencies interested in deciphering the human genetic code has facilitated technological developments that have been critical in the identification of genes associated with numerous disease pathologies. In addition, these efforts have opened the...

journal_title：Gene therapy

authors： Gruenert DC,Novelli G,Dallapiccola B,Colosimo A

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00