Chapter 067. Applications of Stem Cell Biology in Clinical Medicine (Part 3) Diabetes Mellitus The success of islet cell and pancreas transplantation provides proof of concept for a cell-based approach for type I diabetes. However, the[r]
and decitabine is myelosuppression, leading to worsened blood counts. Other symptoms associated with cancer chemotherapy frequently occur. Ironically, it has been difficult to establish that either agent acts in patients by a mechanism of DNA demethylation. Thalidomide, a drug with many activ[r]
represents antibody level (arbitrary units) of an individual mouse. (C) Arthritis score. Each line represents the average score from hAAT treatedgroup (open triangles, mean-SD) or control group (open circles, mean+SD, * p < 0.05 as determined by AUC analysis.) (D) Incidence of severear[r]
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however, these terms are often more strictly used to define partially differentiated or lineage-committed cells (e.g., myeloid progenitor cells) that can divide into different cell types but lack self-renewing capacity. Unipotent cells or monopotent cells, e.g., spermatogonial stem (SS[r]
Chapter 097. Paraneoplastic Neurologic Syndromes (Part 4) PND of the Central Nervous System and Dorsal Root Ganglia When symptoms involve brain, spinal cord, or dorsal root ganglia, the suspicion of PND is usually based on a combination of clinical, radiolo[r]
most of the trials has included direct IM (or myocardial) injection of either a plasmid or an adenoviral vector expressing the transgene. Both of these vectors are likely to result in only short-term expression of VEGF. This strategy may be adequate, however, as there is no need[r]
identification of cytokines that induced cell division without promoting differentiation of stem cells, along with technical improvements in the isolation and transduction of HSCs, led to modest but real gains in transduction efficiency. The first convincing[r]
system Note: AAV, adeno-associated virus; HSV, herpes simplex virus; SV, sarcoma virus Gene transfer technology is still under development and protocols are experimental. Gene therapy is one of the most complex therapeutic modalities yet attempted, and each new dis[r]
1. What vector was administered? Is it predominantly integrating [retroviral, lentiviral, herpesvirus (latency and reactivation)], or non-integrating (plasmid, adenoviral, AAV)? 2. What was the route of administration of the vector? 3. What was the target tissue? 4. What gene[r]
tumor suppressor genes wo uld lead to prostatecarcinogenesis.Additionally, Barker et al [72] and Zhu et al [43] dis-covered crypt stem cells as the origin of intestinal can-cer. They demonstrated that Lgr5 positive or prominin1positive subpopulations were intesti nal stem cells.[r]
Strategies for transplantation of stem cells. 1. Undifferentiated or partially differentiated stem cells may be injected directly in the target organ or intravenously. 2. Stem cells may be differentiated ex vivo prior to injection into the target organ. 3. G[r]
A relatively high proportion of patients diagnosed with primary CNS lymphoma will experience recurrent disease, yet therapy options are limited in salvage therapy.
Page 2 of 9immune-competent mice. In the evolution of the tumor,the phenotype and genotype of precancerous stem cellshad developed towards primary cancer stem cells.Interestingly, Shen et al [62] discovered that the pre-cancerous stem cells could diff[r]
or chest, and an anteroposterior pel-vic radiograph. Placing a lead shieldover the abdomen whenever possibleprovides additional protection forthe fetus. Abdominal ultrasound hassimilar efficacy for evaluating ab-dominal trauma in pregnant andnonpregnant patients; it should beused as re[r]
small nonspecific non-enhancing extra-axial nodule in the left side prepontine cistern at the level of the upper pons. The patient ’ s computed tomography (CT) of the chest, abdomen and pelvis showed no tumor, and two CSF specimens were also negative for neo[r]
(bCII) and mouse collagen II (mCII) were tested by ELISA.Results: Human AAT protein therapy as well as recombinant adeno-associated virus (rAAV8)-mediated hAAT genetherapy significantly delayed onset and ameliorated disease development of arthritis in CIA mouse model.Importantly, hAAT[r]
Chapter 065. Gene Therapy in Clinical Medicine (Part 3) Long-Term Expression in Genetic Disease: In Vivo Gene Transfer with Recombinant Adeno-Associated Viral (AAV) Vectors Recombinant AAV vectors have emerged as attractive gene delivery vehic[r]
National Cancer Institute 215 SEER Survival Monograph Chapter 25 Cancer of the Brain and Nervous SystemREFERENCES1. American Cancer Society. Cancer Facts and Figures 2006. Atlanta: American Cancer Society; 2006.2. Ries LAG, Harkins D, Krapcho M, Mariotto A, Miller BA, Feuer EJ, Clegg L[r]