Viral-mediated gene transfer of thymidine kinase ofherpes simplex virus (HSV-tk) has been used to confercytotoxic sensitivity to ganciclovir (GCV) in a variety oftnmor cells. HSV-tk converts GCV into a phosphorylatedc...
To study the effects of human interleukin-2 genetransfer on the morphology, proliferation, tumori-genesis, immunity, and oncogenes expression of tumorcells, the gene encoding human interleukin-2 (IL-2) wasintroduced v...
Tumor cells escape host immune surveillance bydown-regulation of MHC and/or co-stimulatorymolecules.Anti-tumor immune responses are mediated primarily by T cells.A deficiency in either MHC or co-stimulatory molecules ...
Retroviral mediated gene transfer of humanglobin gene into hematopoietic stem cells is apromising approach for thalassemia gene therapy.Major problem of the transferred globin gene was lowlevel expression of the gene ...
Both rheumatoid arthritis and animal models ofautoimmune arthritis are characterized by hyper-activation of synovial cells and hyperplasia of the synovialmembrane. The activated synovial cells produceinflammatory cyto...
In the present study, human IL-2 gene wastransferred into human erythroleukemic cell line K562 bythe retroviral vector LYCN. The effects on theproliferative activity of the IL-2-gene-modified K562 cells(K562/IL2) we...
Liposomes have several advantages over viral vectorsfor gene delivery both in vitro and in vivo. However,few data are available concerning gene transfer intohematopoietic stem cells. In order to explore theefficiency ...
Adenoviruses harboring E. coli. cytosine deaminase(CD) gene (Ad-CD) and murine granulocyte-macrophage colony stimulating factor (GM-CSF) gene(Ad-GM-CSF) were used for gene transfer in vivo.(C57BL/6 mice were inoculate...
Myoblast-mediated gene transfer approach has agreat potential to be developed into a durable genetherapy method for various diseases. To increase theexpression level of human factor Ⅸ (hFⅨ) in musclecells, we constr...