Virus Vectors for Gene Therapy of the Nervous System
Advances in molecular virology, and in understanding the molecular basis of human disease, has led to intensive efforts to use viruses for delivering therapeutic genes to cells. Although gene therapy (GT) to treat disease is still in its infancy, the techniques developed for gene delivery to cells have become more sophisticated, and are useful in a variety of experimental settings. This chapter focuses on two viral systems: adenovirus (AD) and herpes simplex virus (HSV)-based vectors. AD represents a nonenveloped DNA virus with a well-characterized genome. Vectors have been developed that are reasonably nontoxic and easy to manipulate in the laboratory. HSV vectors are enveloped viruses with a large and well-characterized DNA genome. Nontoxic variants of this virus have also been developed. Although Ad and HSV vectors share some basic features, there are also significant differences in the types of cells that they infect. This chapter focuses on HSV amplicons, which are essentially plasmids packaged into a HSV shell, and on replication-defective Ad.
- 细胞工程技术(cell engineering)
- Analysis of Properties of Cilia Using Tetrahymena thermophila
- In Situ Hybridization of Suprachiasmatic Nucleus Slices
- Diagonal Electrophoresis for Detection of Protein Disulphide Bridges
- Lipidomic Analysis of Human Meibum Using HPLCMSn
- 胸腹水染色体标本制备
- Knockdown of Telomerase RNA Using Hammerhead Ribozymes and RNA Interference
- 完全桥粒(desmosome)
- 原代细胞的培养与建系
- GTP结合蛋白(GTP binding protein, G蛋白)