Background: Brain acid soluble protein 1 (BASPI) is identified as a novel potential tumor suppressor in several cancers. However, its role in thyroid cancer has not been investigated yet. In the present study, the ...
Background It has been proven that ultrasonic destruction of microbubbles can enhance gene transfection efficiency into the noncardiac cells, but there are few reports about cardiac myocytes. Moreover, the exact mecha...
This work was supported by a grant from the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (No. BK2007055).
Background The organization and recanalization of thrombi is a dynamic and complex process. The aim of this research was to study the cotherapeutic effect of stem cell transplantation and gene transfection on chronic ...
This work was supported by a grant from the Science Foundation of the Ministry of Health of China (No. WKJ2004-2-011).
Background Pancreatic cancer is a highly malignant tumor affecting an ever increasing number of patients with a mean 5-year survival rate below 4%. Therefore, gene therapy for cancer has become a potential novel thera...
Science and Technology Key Projects Program (No. 032050112); Natural Science Fundation (No.Q2006C08)of Shandong Province;Health Department of Shandong Province Projects Program (No. 2003)
Background Gene therapy has been a hot spot in repair of bone defects in recent years. This study aimed to construct a recombinant plasmid pcDNA3.1-VEGF165, and to observe the effect of vascular endothelial growth fac...
Background A number of studies suggest that the expression of heat shock protein 70 (HSP70) induced by heat stress are associated with protection against ischemia-reperfusion injury. But the protective effects may b...
This work was supported by a grant from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.30470457).
Background This study transferred a recombinant gene encoding human insulin like growth factor-1 (hIGF-1) into modified primary skeletal myoblasts with a retroviral vector (pLgXSN) and determined whether the hIGF-...
This work is supported by grants from 135 Medical EmphasisFoundation of Jiangsu Province (RC 2002018) and Natural Scienceand Technology Foundation of Nanjing Medical University(CX2003006).
Background Bone morphogenetic proteins (BMPs), which belong to the transforming growth factor beta superfamily, are powerful regulators of cartilage and bone formation. This study investigated the biological changes...
Background This study was designed to obtain a recombinant retroviral vector containing the human hepatocellular carcinoma-related gene ANGPTL4 (angiopoietin-like 4) cDNA and to evaluate the anti-tumor effect of reco...
ThisstudywassupportedbyagrantfromtheNationalNaturalScienceFoundationofChina (No 3 0 170 945 )
Objective To explore a new method for the therapy of avascular necrosis of the femoral head. Methods The recombinant plasmid pCD-hVEGF 165 was mixed with collagen and was implanted in the necrotic femoral head. The...