Gene therapy: How to target the kidney. Promises and pitfalls

Current Gene Therapy

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 115-122

  Tomasoni, S ^a   Benigni, A ^a  

^a MARIO NEGRI INST PHARMACOL RES   (Italy)

Author keywords

Gene therapy; Kidney; Kidney disease; Non viral vectors; Transplantation; Viral vectors

Indexed keywords

ALPHA GALACTOSIDASE; ANTISENSE OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; ARACHIDONATE 15 LIPOXYGENASE; CD40 LIGAND MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; COLLAGEN TYPE 4; COLLAGEN TYPE 4 ALPHA5; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYCLOSPORIN; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN 4; DECORIN; FAS LIGAND; I KAPPA B ALPHA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN FC FRAGMENT; INTERLEUKIN 1 RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 12; INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR; INTERLEUKIN 4; PLASMID DNA; PROTEIN P40; SCATTER FACTOR; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA 2 RECEPTOR; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA RECEPTOR; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA3; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACUTE DISEASE; ALPORT SYNDROME; CELL SPECIFICITY; CHRONIC DISEASE; FABRY DISEASE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; GENE THERAPY; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; HUMAN; INTERSTITIAL NEPHRITIS; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY FUNCTION; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY INJURY; KIDNEY INTERSTITIUM; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; KIDNEY TUBULE DAMAGE; NONHUMAN; NONVIRAL GENE DELIVERY SYSTEM; REVIEW; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; VIRAL GENE DELIVERY SYSTEM;

GENE EXPRESSION; GENE THERAPY; GENETIC VECTORS; HUMANS; KIDNEY; KIDNEY DISEASES; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION;

ANIMALIA; RODENTIA;

EID: 3042784796     PISSN: 15665232     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/1566523044578013     Document Type: Review

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