Progress and problems with the use of viral vectors for gene therapy

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 346-358

  Thomas, Clare E ^b   Ehrhardt, Anja ^b   Kay, Mark A ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS PROTEIN; VIRUS VECTOR;

ADENO ASSOCIATED VIRUS; ADENOVIRUS; CANCER THERAPY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMBINED IMMUNODEFICIENCY; DISORDERS OF AMINO ACID AND PROTEIN METABOLISM; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; FEVER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE THERAPY; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 1; HUMAN; LENTIVIRINAE; LEUKEMIA; LIVER INJURY; LYMPHOPROLIFERATIVE DISEASE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROVIRUS; REVIEW; SIDE EFFECT; VIRAL GENE DELIVERY SYSTEM;

ADENOVIRIDAE; DEFECTIVE VIRUSES; DEPENDOVIRUS; GENE THERAPY; GENETIC VECTORS; HUMANS; LENTIVIRUS; NEOPLASMS; RETROVIRIDAE; SIMPLEXVIRUS; VIRUSES;

ADENO-ASSOCIATED VIRUS; ADENOVIRIDAE; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 1; LENTIVIRUS; SIMPLEXVIRUS; UNIDENTIFIED RETROVIRUS;

EID: 0038745599     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg1066     Document Type: Review

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