Gene Therapy
New gene therapy study results from Fudan University described
Published in Surgery Litigation and Law Weekly, April 6th, 2007
Investigators publish new data in the report "Effects of bicistronic lentiviral vector-mediated herpes simplex virus thymidine kinase/ganciclovir system on human lens epithelial cells. Posterior capsule opacification (PCO) is the most common complication after phacoemulsification cataract surgery. Hyperplasia of the lens epithelial cell after phacoemulsification is thought to be an important feature contributing to PCO," scientists in People's Republic of China report.
"In this study,we investigated the feasibility of killing the human lens epithelial cells (HLECs) by lentivirus-mediated herpes simplex virus thymidine kinase (HSV-tk) gene/ganciclovir (GCV) in HLECs and...
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