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Myocardial Ischemia

Insulin-like growth factor gene transfer rejuvenates the injured heart

Published in Gene Therapy Weekly, April 3rd, 2003

by Sonia Nichols, senior medical writer - Insulin-like growth factor gene transfer is a viable means of treating hearts injured by ischemia, researchers say.

"We have characterized the effect of recombinant insulin-like growth factor (IGF) proteins, as well as third-generation adenoviral vectors encoding either IGF-I or IGF-II genes, on cardiomyocyte apoptosis and on angiogenesis," announced E.J. Su, an investigator at Genetic Therapy, Inc., in Gaithersburg, Maryland.

Su's team, collaborating with colleagues from Novartis, studied IGF-I and -II gene transfer in cultured cells and in an in vivo Matrigel model.

"We found that...

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