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Studies conducted at Campbell Family Institute for Breast Cancer Research on gene therapy recently published

Published in Gene Therapy Weekly, February 4th, 2010

A new study, 'Nfil3/E4bp4 is required for the development and maturation of NK cells in vivo,' is now available. "Nuclear factor interleukin-3 (Nfil3; also known as E4-binding protein 4) is a basic region leucine zipper transcription factor that has antiapoptotic activity in vitro under conditions of growth factor withdrawal. To study the role of Nfil3 in vivo, we generated gene-targeted Nfil3-deficient (Nfil3(-/-)) mice," investigators in Canada report.

"Nfil3(-/-) mice were born at normal Mendelian frequency and were grossly normal and fertile. Although numbers of T cells, B cells, and natural killer (NK) T cells were normal in Nfil3(-/-) mice, a specific disruption...

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