Susan Hasty, Publisher
Table of Contents . . . April 10th, 2003
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Cancer Therapy - Interleukin-12 gene therapy is a viable alternative for treating thyroid cancer
Type 1 Diabetes - Gene therapy prevents diabetic recurrence after islet cell transplantation
Colon Cancer - Cisplatin resistance could be defeated with gene targeting
Liver Therapy - A new technique uses gene transfer to improve liver cell transplantation
Ophthalmology - Ocular injection of pseudotyped adenoviral vectors could prevent blindness
Respiratory Disease - Sodium caprate enhances DEAE dextran-mediated gene delivery to the lungs
Arteriogenesis - Gene transfer improves oxygen tension and vascular growth in ischemic limbs
Biotechnology - Silencing RNAs are new tools for elucidating mammalian cell gene function
Brain Inflammation - New constructs can secrete bioactive alpha MSH for treating encephalomyelitis
Cancer Gene Therapy - E1A sensitizes cells to TNF alpha by downregulating c-FLIP gene
Colorectal Cancer - The human DNA methyltransferase gene DNMT1 is a target for cancer therapy
Cystic Fibrosis - Lactosylated poly-L-lysine facilitates gene delivery to pulmonary cells
Gene Vectors - A novel vibratory microinjection method decreases cell damage at gene transfer
Head and Neck Cancer - A combination of thermoradiotherapy and suicide genes eradicates cancer cells
Immunology - Lymphocytes are not the best targets for treating lysosomal storage disease
Neurology - A bi-directional promoter has yielded new clues about a novel parkin-linked gene
Neuroscience - Synapsin 1 gene promoter confers neuron and area-specific transgene expression
Oncology - Manganese superoxide dismutase causes cells to resist doxorubicin therapy
Ovarian Cancer - Modified coxsackie-adenovirus receptor increases adenoviral transgene expression
Thyroid Cancer - An adenovirus encoding for rat protein suppresses human thyroid carcinoma
Urology - Adenoviral-mediated retinoblastoma 94 localizes to bladder cancer cells
Vector Development - Free cationic liposomes block inflammatory response to DNA complexes
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