Despite the marginal improvements in survival of patients suffering from malignant glioma treated with gene therapy vectors, the clinical trials conducted so far using viral vectors, in particular adenoviral vectors, have proven that the use
of adenoviral vectors is a safe therapeutic approach, even in large, multicenter, phase 3 clinical trials.
Preparation and distribution of 19 reference antigens for several diseases including malaria, HIV and tuberculosis, and the establishment of five new cell banks to improve the growth
of adenoviral vectors.
The complete genome of TMAdV was found to be 36,842 base pairs in length, with a base composition of 20.8 % A, 29.8 % C, 29.8 % G, and 19.6 % T, and a GC content of 59.6 %, comparable to
that of adenoviral species Groups C, D, and E in the Mastadenovirus genus.
Fourth, the finding of intranuclear inclusions in diseased tissues, as well as direct visualization
of adenoviral - like particles (TMAdV) in lung alveoli by electron microscopy (Figs. 1D - 2 to 1D - 4), support a primary role for TMAdV in the pathogenesis of tissue injury in affected monkeys.
Not exact matches
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To confirm the accuracy
of the coding sequence, the sequence
of each identified ORF was aligned to a database containing all
adenoviral proteins in GenBank by BLASTX.
The high degree
of sequence relatedness within members
of each species suggests that at least some
adenoviral strains may be capable
of infecting both nonhuman primates and humans.
However, the high sequence divergence in the fiber protein (Table 2), as well as the absence
of fiber motifs conserved among adenoviruses that bind CAR [36], [37](coxsackievirus - adenovirus receptor) or CD46 [38], [39], [40](data not shown), suggest that neither
of these two human
adenoviral receptors may be the attachment receptor for TMAdV.
The closest human
adenoviral relatives were the species D adenoviruses, which share 54.3 % to 55.1 % identity to TMAdV, with human adenoviruses
of other species slightly less similar (51.1 % — 54.6 %).
With the exception
of SAdV - 23, these highly conserved probes are part
of the core Virochip design and were derived from all available
adenoviral sequences in GenBank as
of 2002 [21].
Second, the clinical presentation
of pneumonia and hepatitis is consistent with the known spectrum
of disease associated with
adenoviral infections.
In PNP's Phase I trial, an
adenoviral vector is used to deliver E. coli PNP to head and neck tumors followed by intravenous administration
of the prodrug fludarabine.
In the current work we used
adenoviral - type 5 (dE1 / E3)(Cytomegalovirus promoter) with human ABCA10 transgene (Ad - h - ABCA10) purchased from Vector Labs ® in order to investigate whether gene therapy can be used as a pre-treatment to enhance the efficiency
of inhaled cisplatin.
Svensson, Eric et al. «Long - term erythropoietin expression in rodents and non-human primates following intramuscular injection
of a replication - defective
adenoviral vector.»
Additionally, the
adenoviral generation
of the iPSCs did not lead to any teratomas or other abnormalities suggesting that they are safe for this type
of use.
In animal models, E1 - deleted human
adenoviral recombinants
of the serotype 5 (AdHu5) have shown high efficacy as vaccine carriers.
To circumvent this problem, novel replication - defective
adenoviral vaccine carriers based on El - deleted recombinants
of chimpanzee - derived adenoviruses were developed.
This research, funded by NIH, aims to test
adenoviral recombinants based on simian serotypes for induction
of immune responses to gag / pol / rev
of HIV - 1 or SIV - 1 in a mouse model.
Lack
of preexisting virus - neutralizing antibodies in the human population suggests that these novel
adenoviral recombinants may provide improved vaccine carriers for use in humans.
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The gene - targeting approach developed by Suzuki and his colleagues relies on the use
of so - called helper - dependent
adenoviral vector to deliver large mutation - free DNA molecules into cells.
A featured paper in the February issue
of the research journal Cancer Gene Therapy demonstrates that cancer cells in the liver are excellent targets for gene therapy using
adenoviral vectors, based upon a fundamental new understanding
of the differences between cancerous and normal liver cells.
«At that time, I was treating patients with colon cancer that had spread to the liver using a very similar
adenoviral vector administered in exactly the same way — direct infusion into the main artery feeding the liver,» said Reid, who is now an associate professor
of clinical medicine in the UCSD School
of Medicine.
Under the mentorship
of Drs. Richard L. Hurwitz and Catherine M. Bollard, he characterized the immune response against an
adenoviral vector delivered intravitreally in retinoblastoma patients.
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The disorganized structure
of the cancer cells exposes the receptors so that Onyx - 015, the
adenoviral vectors used in this study, can readily enter tumor cells.
Adenoviral vectors can be produced by human embryonic kidney (HEK293) and human embryonic retinal (PER.C6) cell lines (31), both
of which also can be used for lentiviral vector production.
It is also important to realize that studying a truly systemic LPL — KO mouse is difficult, as 97 %
of the mice die shortly (15 days) after birth, unless they receive
adenoviral rescue
of LPL expression in the heart, in which case the animals have residual post-heparin LPL activity (31).
Adenovirus was produced by transfecting
adenoviral expression vector into E1 - complemented cell line 293A and performing successive rounds
of amplification until high titer was achieved.
In separate experiments, an
adenoviral construct inhibiting IKKβ, an upstream component
of the nuclear factor kappa - b (NFkB) pathway, was a priori injected into the NAc.