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Researchers from Tulane University detail findings in enzyme research

Published in Gene Therapy Weekly, March 19th, 2009

A new study, 'Comparison of caspase genes for the induction of apoptosis following gene delivery,' is now available. According to a study from the United States, "The polycation poly(ethylenimine) (PEI) was used to deliver the plasmids coding for various combinations of caspases to Cox-2 overexpressing cancer cell lines. It was found that the expression of the delivered genes, controlled by the Cox-2 promoter, correlated with the expression of the endogenous Cox-2 gene in each cell line in a relatively linear manner."

"Among the various caspase combination regimens, the combination of caspase 3 plus caspase 9 proved to be the most effective because of an apparent...

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