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Gene Therapy Weekly

Susan Hasty, Publisher

Table of Contents . . . May 12th, 1997

Non-Subscriber - Summaries Only

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Conference Coverage (AACR) - Adenovirus Mediates Prostate Specific Cancer Gene Therapy

Conference Coverage (AACR) - An Adenovirus Selectively Targets/Kills p53-Deficient Tumors

Conference Coverage (AACR) - Antisense Therapy Under Development as Anticancer Therapeutic

Conference Coverage (AACR) - Antisense VEGF Gene Therapy Explored for Brain Tumors

AIDS Therapies - New Assay Speeds, Improves HIV Monitoring and Drug Testing

AIDS Vaccines - Chimpanzees Protected From HIV-1 Infection By New DNA Vaccine

Alzheimer's Disease - Mitochondrial DNA Mutations Reported as Possible Cause

Cancer Clinical Trials - Trial Tests tgDCC-E1A as Potential Cancer Treatment

Chemotherapy (Side Effects) - Treatment May Cause Temporary Abnormalities in Sperm

Conference Coverage (AACR) - Preliminary Results from p53 Injection of Localized HCC

Conference Coverage (AACR) - p53 Gene Therapy Downregulates Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor

Cystic Fibrosis - NIH Panel Makes Recommendations for Genetic Testing for CF

Diabetes (Genetics) - Gene Discovery May Regenerate Insulin-Producing Cells

Melanoma - Patent Granted on MTS1 Melanoma Gene Mutations

Melanoma (Metastatic) - Emory Researchers Advance Gene Therapy Studies for Cancer Treatment

Obesity - Gene Implicated in Weight Modulation

Osteoporosis - Collaboration Initiated to Identify Potential Gene Therapies for Bone Loss

Prostate Cancer (Diagnostics) - Gene Shown To Be Very Early Marker for Cancer

Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (Immunotherapy) - Peptides Prevent Experimental SLE in Mice

Cancer Gene Therapy - "In Vitro Generation of Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA) Specific Cytotoxic T-Cell Lines Using Recombinant Vaccinia-PSA Infected Dendritic Cells."

Cancer Vaccines - "Peripheral Vaccine for Breast Cancer: Insulin-Like Growth Factor Receptor (IGF-1R) Antisense Oligonucleotide (AON) Modified Tumor Cells Protect against Peripheral Disease

Immunotherapy (Anti-Cancer) - "Dendritic Cells Retrovirally Transduced with a Model Tumor Antigen Gene are Therapeutically Effective against Established Pulmonary Metastases."

Immunotherapy (Anti-Cancer) - "Induction of Antitumor Activity by Immunization with Fusions of Dendritic Cells and Carcinoma Cells."

Ribozyme Therapy (HCV) - "Cleavage of Viral RNA and Inhibition of Viral Translation by Hepatitis C Virus-Specific Hammerhead Ribozyme In Vitro."

Transfusion Medicine - "Hematopoietically Non-Toxic Combination of Idarubicin and Oligonucleotide are Synergistically Cytotoxic for Lymphoma Cells Vitro."

Antisense Technology - "Effects of Anti-tal-1 Oligodeoxynucleotides in T-ALL Cell Lines."

Antisense Technology - "Mixed-Backbone Oligonucleotides as Second Generation Antisense Oligonucleotides: In vitro and in vivo Studies."

Antisense Technology - "Specific Inhibition of Influenza Virus RNA Polymerase and Nucleoprotein Genes Expression by Liposomally Endocapsulated Antisense Phosphorothioate Oligonucleotides: Penetration and Localization of Oligonucleotides in Clone 76 Cells

Auditory Systems - "Cellular Commitment and Differentiation in the Cochlea: Potential Advances using Gene Transfer."

Auditory Systems - "In vivo Gene Transfer into the Embryonic Inner Ear using Retroviral Vectors."

Cancer Gene Therapy - "A Strategy for Specific Targeting of Therapeutic Agents to Tumour Cells of Virus-Associated Cancers."

Cancer Gene Therapy - "Effect of Canarypox Virus (ALVAC)-Mediated Cytokine Expression on Murine Prostate Tumor Growth."

Cancer Gene Therapy - "Efficacy of p53 Adenovirus-Mediated Gene Therapy Against Human Breast Cancer Xenografts."

Cancer Gene Therapy - "Enzyme/Prodrug Gene Therapy Approach for Breast Cancer using a Recombinant Adenovirus Expressing Escherichia coli Cytosine Deaminase."

Cancer Gene Therapy - "Inhibition of Established Pancreatic Cancers Following Specific Active Immunotherapy with Interleukin-2 Gene-Transduced Tumor Cells."

Cancer Gene Therapy - "Mechanism of 'Bystander Effect' Killing in the Herpes Simplex Thymidine Kinase Gene Therapy Model of Cancer Treatment."

Gene Delivery - "Adenovirus Mediated Gene Transfer to Intestinal Epithelial Cells as a Potential Approach for Oral Delivery of Peptides and Proteins."

Gene Delivery - "Peptide Delivery Via the Pulmonary Route: A Valid Approach for Local and Systemic Delivery."

Hematology - "Efficient in vivo Marking of Primary CD4+ T Lymphocytes in Nonhuman Primates using a Gibbon Ape Leukemia Virus-Derived Retroviral Vector."

Immunology - "Insertion of the Adenoviral E3 Region into a Recombinant Viral Vector Prevents Antiviral Humoral and Cellular Immune Responses and Permits Long-Term Gene Expression."

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