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A guide to human gene therapy /

Ever since the birth of molecular biology, the tantalizing possibility of treating disease at its genetic roots has become increasingly feasible. Gene therapy - though still in its infancy - remains one of the hottest areas of research in medicine. Its approach utilizes a gene transfer vehicle (&quo...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: World Scientific (Firm)
Otros Autores: Herzog, Roland W., 1970-, Zolotukhin, S. F. (Sergeĭ F.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Singapore ; Hackensack, N.J. : World Scientific Pub. Co., ©2010.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Non-viral gene therapy / Sean M. Sullivan
  • 2. Adenoviral vectors / Stuart A. Nicklin and Andrew H. Baker
  • 3. Retroviral vectors and integration analysis / Cynthia C. Bartholomae [and others]
  • 4. Lentiviral vectors / Janka Matrai, Marinee K.L. Chuah and Thierry VandenDriessche
  • 5. Herpes simplex virus vectors / William F. Goins [and others]
  • 6. Adeno-Associated Viral (AAV) vectors / Nicholas Muzyczka
  • 7. Regulatory RNA in gene therapy / Alfred. S. Lewin
  • 8. DNA integrating vectors (Transposon, Integrase) / Lauren E. Woodard and Michele P. Calos
  • 9. Homologous recombination and targeted gene modification for gene therapy / Matthew Porteus
  • 10. Gene switches for pre-clinical studies in gene therapy / Caroline Le Guiner [and others]
  • 11. Gene therapy for central nervous system disorders / Deborah Young and Patricia A. Lawlor
  • 12. Gene therapy of hemoglobinopathies / Angela E. Rivers and Arun Srivastava
  • 13. Gene therapy for primary immunodeficiencies / Aisha Sauer, Barbara Cassani and Alessandro Aiuti
  • 14. Gene therapy for hemophilia / David Markusic, Babak Moghimi and Roland Herzog
  • 15. Gene therapy for obesity and diabetes / Sergei Zolotukhin and Clive H. Wasserfall
  • 16. Gene therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy / Takashi Okada and Shin'ichi Takeda
  • 17. Cancer gene therapy / Kirsten A.K. Weigel-Van Aken
  • 18. Gene therapy for autoimmune disorders / Daniel F. Gaddy, Melanie A. Ruffner and Paul D. Robbins
  • 19. Gene therapy for inherited metabolic storage diseases / Cathryn Mah
  • 20. Retinal diseases / Shannon E. Boye, Sanford L. Boye and William W. Hauswirth
  • 21. A brief guide to gene therapy treatments for pulmonary diseases / Ashley T. Martino, Christian Mueller and Terence R. Flotte
  • 22. Cardiovascular disease / Darin J. Falk, Cathryn S. Mah and Barry J. Byrne.