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Gene Therapy Weekly

Susan Hasty, Publisher

Table of Contents . . . February 16th, 2006

Non-Subscriber - Summaries Only

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Gene Therapy - Aldehyde dehydrogenase gene targeting produces high acetaldehyde levels

Gene Therapy - Leptin receptor installation improves energy balance and reproductive status of obese females

Gene Therapy - Transcriptional control of therapeutic genes targets proliferating tumor cells

Gene Therapy - Transduction of dendritic cells is enhanced by adeno-associated virus

Stem Cell Research - rAAV transduction determines osteoprogenitor-specific promoter activity in mesenchymal stem cells

Adenovirus Vector - Scientists generated rabbit VH domain antibody specific to c-Met and adenoviral knob protein

Adult Stem Cells - Powerful technique for multiplying adult stem cells may aid therapies

Angiology - Chloride intracellular channel 4 facilitates tubular morphogenesis

Angiology - Phosphatidylinositide 3-kinase supports late-stage fibroblast growth factor-1-mediated angiogenesis

Angiotensin - Reactive oxygen species regulate adventitial fibroblast phenotypic differentiation

Antisense Technology - Antisense oligo DNA and small interfering RNA suppress malignant cancer cell phenotypes

Apoptosis - PDCD2_C domain might not be universally associated with apoptosis

Apoptosis - Transcription inhibition proposed as potential strategy for cancer therapeutics

Autoimmune Diseases - CD18 is required for optimal development and function of T regulatory cells

Awards - Three proposals funded through association's TREAT amyotrophic lateral sclerosis program

Breast Cancer - Combined gene therapy effect revealed in syngeneic murine breast cancer models

Breast Cancer - Role of autoimmunity in breast cancer has broad implications in therapy target discovery

Cancer Cell Biology - icb-1 gene expression is inducible in breast and ovarian cancer cells

Cancer Gene Therapy - Adeno-associated virus is tumoricidal because of inhibited angiogenesis

Cancer Gene Therapy - Capsid-modified adenovirus efficiently infects tumor endothelial cells

Cancer Gene Therapy - RNA interference enhances the cisplatin sensitivity of colorectal adenocarcinoma cells

Cancer Gene Therapy - Thymidylate synthase expression is inhibited by retrovirally introduced siRNA gene

Cancer Gene Therapy - Transfected, microencapsulated cells and ifosfamide treat peritoneal cancer

Cancer Therapy - Cancer phenotypes are suppressed through a multifunctional actin-binding protein

Cancer Therapy - Oncolytic herpes simplex virus is useful in therapy of metastatic pleural cancer

Cancer Vaccines - Researchers detail new studies and findings in the area of cancer vaccines

DNA Research - Positive data presented from test of alkylating anthraquinone on multiple cancer cell lines

Developmental Biology - Bone morphogenetic protein-15 functions in oocyte maturation

Drug Delivery - Gold nanoparticles can assemble themselves to find, treat disease in the body

Drug Development - New method may speed quest for medically useful compounds in fungi

Drug Development - Two antitumor agents can modify cell-bound DNA

Endocrinology - Relaxin triggers gender-specific changes in the collagen metabolism of rats

Finance - NCI SPORE grant will fund basic and translational breast cancer research

Gastric Cancer - MGr1-antigen regulates multidrug resistance in gastric cancer cells

Gastroenterology - Inhibitor of DNA binding protein blockade halts gastric cancer metastasis

Gastroenterology - Recent studies add new data to gastroenterology research

Gene Therapy - Blood flow after vascular endothelial growth factor gene therapy regulates vessel growth

Gene Therapy - Proangiogenic gene therapy may improve thrombus recanalization

Genetic Research - Tumor suppressor genetics reviewed

Genetics - Alpha-spectrin gene mutation detected in hereditary pyropoikilocytosis kindred

Gonadotropins - Gonadotropin-releasing hormone induces actin cytoskeleton remodeling and affects cell migration

Hepatitis B Virus - HBV genotype and promoter mutations affect HBV e antigen expression

Hepatitis C Virus - Researchers' data advance hepatitis C virus research

Hepatocellular Cancer - Protein kinase C alpha expression is regulated in human hepatocellular carcinoma

Herpesvirus - New findings in herpesvirus described

Huntington Disease - Dysregulation mediates aberrant caspase-1 activation in Huntington disease

Hypoxia - HIF up-regulation in hypoxia is required for pulmonary artery fibroblast responses

Infectious Diseases -  Toxoplasma gondii from immunocompromised patients are frequently type I

Ischemia - Modified troponin I protein protects against major cardiovascular damage

Leukemia - Leukemia xenografts are inhibited by adenovirus-mediated tissue inhibitor

Lung Cancer - Human lung cancer tumors are suppressed by a nuclear export mediator

Lung Cancer - Iodide sensitizes non-small cell lung cancer cells to ionizing radiation

Lung Cancer - Novel EGFR gene mutation could improve lung cancer patients' response to therapy

Medulloblastoma - Tumor suppressors collaborate with Patched to suppress medulloblastoma formation

Multiple Sclerosis - Responsiveness to interferon in multiple sclerosis is genetically varied

Neurodegenerative Diseases - Determinants of exon 7 splicing identified in spinal muscular atrophy genes

Neuroscience - Thalamocortical neuron receptors are a molecular target for hypnotics

Ovarian Cancer - Ovarian tumor xenografts are imaged and treated using sodium iodide symporter-mediated radioiodide

Patents - U.S. patent application filed for synDNA vaccines and other therapeutic compounds

Patents - U.S. patent covering synthesis and manufacture of RNA granted

Physiology - Microtubules have differential roles in megakaryocyte proplatelet formation

Prostate Cancer - A replicating adenovirus is useful for the treatment of prostate cancer

Prostate Cancer - Adenovirus-mediated expression sensitizes prostate carcinoma cells to apoptosis

Prostate Cancer - Adoptive splenocyte transfer is therapeutic in a mouse prostate cancer model

Proteomics - Cytosolic delivery of a p16-peptide oligopeptide occurs through membrane transduction

Renal Cell Carcinoma - Manipulation of B7-H1 is a viable therapeutic option in patients with RCC

Retinitis Pigmentosa - Retinitis pigmentosa Noerg-1 mutation of rhodopsin characterized and cloned

Stem Cell Research - ATR/Chk1 pathway inhibition induces a p38-dependent S-phase delay in ESCs

Stem Cell Research - Lentiviral expression of Pdx1- and Pdx1-VP16 reprograms liver-stem WB cells

Stroke - Research add new data to stroke body of knowledge

Transplant Medicine - Adenoviral bcl-2 transfer improves post-transplantation survival and early graft function

Vaccine Delivery - Inorganic materials for gene-based nano-medicine delivery are focus of review

Vaccine Delivery - Review describes recent advances in lipid molecular design

Vaccine Delivery - Review examines chromosome engineering for delivery of therapeutic genes

Vaccine Delivery - Review examines nanotechnology for drug and gene therapy

Vaccine Delivery - Study examined delivery of ODN into saphenous veins and adjunct effect of ultrasound

Vaccine Vector - Adenovirus vector-incorporating antibody achieves targeted gene delivery

Vector Development - Antigen-presenting cells in CNS are targeted using hematopoietic stem cells

Vector Development - Findings advance knowledge in vector development research

Vector Development - Researchers develop all-in-one gene delivery system to open new treatment avenues

Vector Development - Trophic activity of rabies equine infectious anemia viral vector mediates neuron gene transfer

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