Lentiviral Vectors for Gene Delivery to the Nervous System

Sep 24, 2016 by in NEUROLOGY Comments Off on Lentiviral Vectors for Gene Delivery to the Nervous System

Pseudotype envelope Tropism and other features References Amphotropic MLV Efficient transduction of hematopoietic progenitor cells, T lymphocytes Reviewed in [60] Aura virus Transduction of monocyte derived dendritic cells (DCs), useful…

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Gene Therapy for Epilepsies

Sep 24, 2016 by in NEUROLOGY Comments Off on Gene Therapy for Epilepsies

Target gene Injection region Vector Experimental model Functional outcome References GAD Substantia nigra Engineered cells overexpressing GAD65 Kindling Increased seizure threshold Thompson et al. [66]  Substantia nigra Engineered cells overexpressing…

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Gene Delivery and Gene Therapy for Alzheimer’s Disease

Sep 24, 2016 by in NEUROLOGY Comments Off on Gene Delivery and Gene Therapy for Alzheimer’s Disease

Serotype Natural host/origin Optimal organ/tissue/cell type transduced CNS area transduced Receptor Coreceptor Blood–brain barrier penetration Disease targets AAV1 Monkey Muscle [39], Liver [110], CNS [32, 42] SNpc, SNpr, midbrain, hippocampus…

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Targeted Gene Therapy for Ischemic Stroke

Sep 24, 2016 by in NEUROLOGY Comments Off on Targeted Gene Therapy for Ischemic Stroke

Fig. 1 (a) Nine copies of Epo HRE consensus sequence. The HIF-1 binding sites are underlined. (b) Schematic drawing of H9LacZ and H9VEGF. Nine copies of Epo HRE (9HRE) were…

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Gene Therapy for Huntington’s Disease

Sep 24, 2016 by in NEUROLOGY Comments Off on Gene Therapy for Huntington’s Disease

Volume Reagent Final concentration Complete DMEM media 500 mL DMEM (Invitrogen #12430-062)  50 mL Fetal bovine serum (Thermo HyClone #SH30406.02) 9 % 5 mL Non-essential amino acids (100×, Invitrogen, #11140050)…

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Gene Therapy Approaches Using Reproducible and Fully Penetrant Lentivirus-Mediated Endogenous Glioma Models

Sep 24, 2016 by in NEUROLOGY Comments Off on Gene Therapy Approaches Using Reproducible and Fully Penetrant Lentivirus-Mediated Endogenous Glioma Models

Author (reference) Animal System Age/injection site Proliferation (RTK/KRAS/PI3K) Apoptosis (p53/ARF) Cell cycle (Rb/INK4) Best combined penetrance Holland et al. 2000 [13] Mice RCAS Neonatal/R frontal AKT, KRAS   26 % Dai…

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Disorders of the Cerebrovascular System

Sep 24, 2016 by in NEUROLOGY Comments Off on Disorders of the Cerebrovascular System

Stroke type Percentage (% of each category) Ischemic 85 Carotid artery circulation 55 Vertebral/basilar artery circulation 12 Lacune 31 Other (vasculopathy, coagulopathy, sickle cell, hyperviscosity, vasculitis) 2 Hemorrhagic 14 Hypertensive…

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Common Neurologic Tests

Sep 24, 2016 by in NEUROLOGY Comments Off on Common Neurologic Tests

Frontal lobe Wechsler memory scale Milan sorting test Porteus maze test Parietal lobe Wechsler block design Benton figure copying test Temporal lobe Halstead–Reitan battery (parts) Milner’s maze learning task Intelligence…

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