Susan Hasty, Publisher
Table of Contents . . . December 23rd, 1996
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Acquired Protein Deficiences - Sustained Expression and Systemic Delivery Possible Using AAV Vector in Skeletal Muscle
Alzheimer's Disease (Genetics) - Gene Position Plays Role in Brain Cell Death and Disease
Apoptosis - Researchers Discover Cellular 'Lifesaver' Protein
Brain Cancer (Genetics) - Cancer Gene Discovery Program Accelerated
Cancer Gene Therapy - Transduction of Mutant MGMT into CD34 Cells Confers Drug Resistance
Cancer Vaccines - Collaboration Initiated to Develop Brain Cancer Treatment
Computers - Silicon Chip Scans Thousands of Genes At Once
DNA Vaccines - Long-Term Antiviral Immunity Possible with Gene-Gun Inoculation
Epilepsy (Internet) - Genetic Discovery Project Announced to Link Families and Scientists
Genetics - Molecular Mechanisms Identified that Allow HIV to Enter Human Cells
HIV Gene Therapy - Stable HIV Packaging Cell Line/HIV-1 Vector Promotes Efficient Gene Transfer
Pancreatic Cancer - Gains Made in Treatment and Genetic Risks of Cancer
Pathogenesis (HIV) - Findings on Host Factors Illuminate AIDS Replication
Shigella flexneri - Attenuated Shigella Vaccine Still Too Reactogenic
Transplantation - Approval Granted for Ceprate SC Stem Cell Concentration System
Vector Development - A Helper-Dependent Adenovirus Vector System Reduces Immune Reactions
Cancer Vaccines - "Highly Efficient Ex Vivo-Gene Transfer into Primary Human Tumor Cells using Improved Recombinant Adeno-Associated Virus (rAAV) Vectors."
Cancer Vaccines - "Immunotherapeutic Approaches to the Elimination of Minimal Residual Disease."
Cancer Vaccines - "Increase of Cytotoxic Sensitivity of Primary Human Melanoma Cells Transfected with the Interleukin-7 Gene."
Cancer Vaccines - "Influence of Gene Modified (IL-7, IL-4 and B7) Tumor Cell Vaccines on Tumor Antigen Presentation."
Cancer Vaccines - "Interferon Gene Transfer and Expression in Human Leukemia and Cancer Cells."
Cancer Vaccines - "Transfer of Cytidine Deaminase (CDD) into Hematopoietic Cells Increases Resistance to Cytarabine (ARA-C)."
Cancer Vaccines - "Tumor Suppression After Cytokine Gene Transfer Into Burkitt Lymphoma Cells In A Mouse Model."
Animal Models - "Sustained Somatic Gene Inactivation by Viral Transfer of Cre Recombinase."
Antisense Technology - "Mechanisms of inhibition of in vitro Dimerization of HIV Type I RNA by Sense and Antisense Oligonucleotides."
Antisense Technology - "Role of Extracellular Matrix in Experimental Vasospasm: Inhibitory Effect of Antisense Oligonucleotide on Collagen Induction."
Cancer Gene Therapy - "Tissue-Specific Growth Suppression and Chemosensitivity Promotion in Human Hepatocellular Carcinoma Cells by Retroviral-Mediated Transfer of the Wild-Type p53 Gene."
Dermatology - "Corrective Gene Transfer in the Human Skin Disorder Lamellar Ichthyosis."
Diabetes (Amimal Models) - "Prevention of Adoptively Transferred Diabetes in Nonobese Diabetic Mice with IL-10-Transduced Islet-Specific Th1 Lymphocytes - A Gene Therapy Model for Autoimmune Diabetes."
Hepatitis Gene Therapy - "A Potential Therapeutic Application of Hairpin Ribozymes: In vitro and in vivo Studies of Gene Therapy for Hepatitis C virus infection."
Transfection Rates - "Evidence for the Role of Proteoglycans in Cation-Mediated Gene Transfer."
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