Retroviral vector-mediated transfer of the galactocerebrosidase (GALC) cDNA leads to overexpression and transfer of GALC activity to neighboring cells

Biochemical and Molecular Medicine

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 142-150

  Rafi, Mohammad A ^a   Fugaro, Joseph ^a   Amini, Shohreh ^a   Luzi, Paola ^a   De Gala, Gregory ^a   Victoria, Teresa ^a   Dubell, Caren ^a   Shahinfar, Maryam ^a   Wenger, David A ^a  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON 14; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GALACTOSYLCERAMIDASE; GALACTOSYLCERAMIDE; MESSENGER RNA; PSYCHOSINE; SOMATOMEDIN B RECEPTOR; SULFATIDE; VIRUS VECTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FIBROBLAST CULTURE; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC TRANSDUCTION; GLOBOID CELL LEUKODYSTROPHY; HEMATOPOIETIC CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LIPID METABOLISM; LYSOSOME STORAGE DISEASE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; RETROVIRUS;

ANIMALIA; UNIDENTIFIED RETROVIRUS;

EID: 0030221108     PISSN: 10773150     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/bmme.1996.0042     Document Type: Article

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