Diabetes therapy by lentiviral hepatic insulin gene expression without transformation of liver

Diabetologia

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 694-695

  Elsner, M ^a   Jorns A ^a   Lenzen, S ^a  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Gene therapy; Hepatocytes; Insulin production; Lentiviral vector; Rat; Type 1 diabetes

Indexed keywords

GLUCAGON; HISTIDINE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; INSULIN DERIVATIVE; INSULIN[B10 ASPARTIC ACID]; LENTIVIRUS VECTOR; NEUROGENIC DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR; SOMATOSTATIN; STREPTOZOCIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PDX 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DISEASE MODEL; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; GENETIC TRANSDUCTION; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GLUCOSE HOMEOSTASIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; INSULIN RESPONSE; INSULIN SYNTHESIS; LETTER; LIVER CELL; NONHUMAN; PANCREAS ISLET BETA CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STREPTOZOCIN DIABETES; VIRAL GENE THERAPY;

ANIMALS; DIABETES MELLITUS, EXPERIMENTAL; GENE THERAPY; GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; HEPATOCYTES; LENTIVIRUS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 41149143064     PISSN: 0012186X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00125-008-0931-1     Document Type: Letter

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