Foamy virus vectors: An awaited alternative to gammaretro- and lentiviral vectors

Current Gene Therapy

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 261-271

  Rethwilm, Axel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cis acting RNA signals; FV capsid assembly; Internal promoter; NOD SCID mice; Viral DNA sequences

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; LENTIVIRUS VECTOR; RETROVIRUS VECTOR; SPUMA VIRUS VECTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS VECTOR;

CD34 SELECTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; ENGRAFTMENT; FANCONI ANEMIA; GENE TARGETING; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC TRANSDUCTION; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; STEM CELL GENE THERAPY; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; VIRAL GENE THERAPY; VIRUS CELL INTERACTION; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS REPLICATION;

ANIMALS; GAMMARETROVIRUS; GENE THERAPY; GENETIC VECTORS; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELLS; HUMANS; LENTIVIRUS; MODELS, ANIMAL; SIMIAN FOAMY VIRUS; SPUMAVIRUS; VIRUS ASSEMBLY; VIRUS REPLICATION;

ANIMALIA; HUMAN SPUMARETROVIRUS; MIRIDAE; MUS;

EID: 34547807068     PISSN: 15665232     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/156652307781369092     Document Type: Review

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