Chen, Vicky Ping Gao, Yang Geng, Liyi Steele, Mike Jenks, Nathan Peng, Kah-Whye Brimijoin, Stephen
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Human Gene Therapy
Cocaine addiction continues to impose major burdens on affected individuals and broader society but is highly resistant to medical treatment or psychotherapy. This study was undertaken with the goal of Food and Drug Administration (FDA) permission for a first-in-human clinical trial of a gene therapy for treatment-seeking cocaine users to become an...
Radek, Constanze Bernadin, Ornellie Drechsel, Katharina Cordes, Nicole Pfeifer, Rita Sträßer, Pia Mormin, Mirella Gutierrez-Guerrero, Alejandra Cosset, François-loïc Kaiser, Andrew D.
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Human Gene Therapy
Cell and gene therapies are finally becoming viable patient treatment options, with both T cell- and hematopoietic stem cell (HSC)-based therapies being approved to market in Europe. However, these therapies, which involve the use of viral vector to modify the target cells, are expensive and there is an urgent need to reduce manufacturing costs. On...
Rubin, Jeffrey D. Nguyen, Tien V. Allen, Kari L. Ayasoufi, Katayoun Barry, Michael A.
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Human Gene Therapy
There are many kidney diseases that might be addressed by gene therapy. However, gene delivery to kidney cells is inefficient. This is due, in part, to the fact that the kidney excludes molecules above 50 kDa and that most gene delivery vectors are megaDaltons in mass. We compared the ability of adeno-associated virus (AAV), adenovirus (Ad), and le...
Subramanian, Suriyasri Maurer, Anna C. Bator, Carol M. Makhov, Alexander M. Conway, James F. Turner, Kevin B. Marden, James H. Vandenberghe, Luk H. Hafenstein, Susan L.
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Human Gene Therapy
Adeno-associated viruses (AAVs) have been employed successfully as gene therapy vectors in treating various genetic diseases for almost two decades. However, transgene packaging is usually imperfect, and developing a rapid and accurate method for measuring the proportion of DNA encapsidation is an important step for improving the downstream process...
Joe, Myung Kuk Li, Wenbo Hiriyanna, Suja Yu, Wenhan Shah, Shreya A. Abu-Asab, Mones Qian, Haohua Wu, Zhijian
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Human Gene Therapy
Identifying early disease hallmarks in animal models with slow disease progression may expedite disease detection and assessment of treatment outcomes. Using optical coherence tomography, a widely applied noninvasive method for monitoring retinal structure changes, we analyzed retinal optical sections from six mouse lines with retinal degeneration ...
Maurya, Shubham Mary, Bertin Jayandharan, Giridhara R.
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Human Gene Therapy
Synthetic engineering of viral vectors such as adeno-associated virus (AAV) is crucial to overcome host transduction barriers observed during clinical gene therapy. We reasoned that exploring the role of cellular ubiquitin-like modifiers (UBLs) such as Neddylation or SUMOylation during AAV transduction could be beneficial. Using a combination of in...
Akkouch, Adil Eliason, Steven Sweat, Mason E Romero-Bustillos, Miguel Zhu, Min Qian, Fang Amendt, Brad A Hong, Liu
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Human gene therapy
MicroRNA (miR)-200c functions in antitumorigenesis and mediates inflammation and osteogenic differentiation. In this study, we discovered that miR-200c was upregulated in human bone marrow mesenchymal stromal cells (hBMSCs) during osteogenic differentiation. Inhibition of endogenous miR-200c resulted in downregulated osteogenic differentiation of h...
Song, Liujiang Song, Zhenwei Fry, Nate J Conatser, Laura Llanga, Telmo Alejandro Mei, Hua Kafri, Tal Hirsch, Matt
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Human gene therapy
Limbal stem cell (LSC) transplantation is a promising treatment for ocular surface diseases especially limbal stem cell deficiency (LSCD). Genetic engineering represents an attractive strategy to increase the potential for success in LSC transplantations either by correcting autologous diseased LSCs or by decreasing the immunogenicity of allogeneic...
Feathers, Kecia L Jia, Lin Perera, Nirosha Dayanthi Chen, Adrienne Presswalla, Feriel K Khan, Naheed W Fahim, Abigail T Smith, Alexander J Ali, Robin R Thompson, Debra A
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Human gene therapy
Early-onset severe retinal dystrophy (EOSRD) is a genetically heterogeneous group of diseases resulting in serious visual disability in children. A significant number of EOSRD cases, often diagnosed as Leber congenital amaurosis (LCA13), are associated with mutations in the gene encoding retinol dehydrogenase 12 (RDH12). RDH12 is a member of the en...
Han, Ian C. Burnight, Erin R. Ulferts, Mallory J. Worthington, Kristan S. Russell, Stephen R. Sohn, Elliott H. Mullins, Robert F. Stone, Edwin M. Tucker, Budd A. Wiley, Luke A.
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Human Gene Therapy
The identification of >100 genes causing inherited retinal degeneration and the promising results of recent gene augmentation trials have led to an increase in the number of studies investigating the preclinical efficacy of viral-mediated gene transfer. Despite success using adeno-associated viruses, many disease-causing genes, such as ABCA4 or USH...