Intrathecal delivery of CNTF using encapsulated genetically modified xenogeneic cells in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis patients

Nature Medicine

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 696-699

  Aebischer, Patrick ^a   Schluep, Myriam ^a   Déglon, Nicole ^a   Joseph, Jean Marc ^a   Hirt, Lorenz ^a   Heyd, Bruno ^a   Goddard, Moses ^b   Hammang, Joseph P ^b   Zurn, Anne D ^a   Kato, Ann C ^c   Regli, Franco ^a   Baetge, E Edward ^b  

^a University of Lausanne Medical Center   (Switzerland)

^b CytoTherapeutics Inc   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CILIARY NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR;

AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL STRAIN BHK; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; GENE THERAPY; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HUMAN; NERVE CELL NECROSIS; NERVE DEGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ANIMALS; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CILIARY NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CRICETINAE; DRUG IMPLANTS; GENE THERAPY; GENETIC VECTORS; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, SPINAL; KIDNEY; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; CRICETINAE; RODENTIA;

EID: 15844381714     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nm0696-696     Document Type: Article

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