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Interleukin-4 inaugurates HSV-based gene therapy in multiple sclerosis models

Published in Physician Law Weekly, September 1st, 2004

Interleukin-4 inaugurates HSV-based gene therapy in multiple sclerosis models.

"Local delivery of cytokines or other immunomodulatory components has been applied as a potential therapy for experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE), which is used as a model of human multiple sclerosis. We have used herpes simplex virus (HSV)-based vectors expressing Th2 cytokines IL-4 and IL-10 and have previously shown a significant abolishment of disease symptoms by the virus expressing IL-4 (R8306), but not by the one expressing IL-10 (R8308). In the present study, the aim was to investigate the local and systemic cytokine response after HSV-based gene therapy," scientists in...

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