Published in Vaccine Weekly, February 8th, 2006
"Antiviral antibodies within the human population remain a barrier to the effective clinical use of viral gene transfer vectors. We have asked whether local, balloon catheter-mediated delivery of a viral vector to the rabbit liver using a hepatic vein might mitigate the neutralizing effects of antiviral antibodies," researchers in the United States report.
"We have compared directly the ability of adenovirus (Ad2) encoding nuclear-localized beta-galactosidase to infect the rabbit liver after local and systemic...
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Source: Vaccine Weekly (2006-02-08)
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