Safety evaluation of clinical gene therapy using hepatocyte growth factor to treat peripheral arterial disease

Hypertension

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 203-209

  Morishita, Ryuichi ^a   Aoki, Motokuni ^a   Hashiya, Naotaka ^a   Makino, Hirofumi ^b   Yamasaki, Keita ^a   Azuma, Junya ^a   Sawa, Yoshiki ^a   Matsuda, Hikaru ^b   Kaneda, Yasufumi ^a   Ogihara, Toshio ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Blood vessels; Clinical trials; DNA; Safety; Vascular diseases

Indexed keywords

PLASMID DNA; SCATTER FACTOR;

ANKLE PRESSURE; ARTERY DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL DIAMETER; BUERGER DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG RESEARCH; DRUG SAFETY; FEMALE; GENE THERAPY; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HUMAN; LIMB ISCHEMIA; MALE; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PERIPHERAL OCCLUSIVE ARTERY DISEASE; PHASE 1 CLINICAL TRIAL; PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIDE EFFECT; SYMPTOM; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; GENE THERAPY; HEPATOCYTE GROWTH FACTOR; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAMUSCULAR; LEG; LEG ULCER; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASES; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; THROMBOANGIITIS OBLITERANS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 3543025721     PISSN: 0194911X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.HYP.0000136394.08900.ed     Document Type: Article

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