Gene therapy for the prevention of ischemia/reperfusion injury in organ transplantation

Current Gene Therapy

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 101-109

  Ritter, Thomas ^a   Kupiec Weglinski, J W ^b  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Anti apoptotic genes; Cytoprotective genes; Gene therapy; Ischemia reperfusion injury; Transplantation; Viral vectors

Indexed keywords

ADENOVIRUS VECTOR; AMINOTRANSFERASE; BAG 1 PROTEIN; CD4 ANTIGEN; CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; COPPER ZINC SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; DNA; FERRITIN; GAMMA INTERFERON; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 70; HEME OXYGENASE 1; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; INTERCELLULAR ADHESION MOLECULE 1; INTERLEUKIN 1; INTERLEUKIN 1 RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 13; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8; LIPOSOME; MANGANESE SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE REDUCTASE; PLASMID VECTOR; PROTEIN BCL 2; PROTEIN BCL XL; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; UNINDEXED DRUG; VIRUS VECTOR;

APOPTOSIS; CELL PROTECTION; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; DOWN REGULATION; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE THERAPY; GENE TRANSFER; GRAFT REJECTION; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS; IMMUNOGENICITY; ISCHEMIA; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NONVIRAL GENE DELIVERY SYSTEM; ORGAN DONOR; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; REPERFUSION INJURY; REVIEW; VIRAL GENE DELIVERY SYSTEM;

EID: 13844254508     PISSN: 15665232     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/1566523052997451     Document Type: Review

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