Viral vectors for treating diseases of the nervous system
By: edited by David S. Latchman.
Contributors: Latchman, David S.
Series: International review of neurobiology -- v. 55
Publisher: Academic Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: San Diego, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 329
Subjects: Genetic Vectors; Gene Therapy; Nervous System Diseases -- therapy; Adenoviridae; Retroviridae; Genetic vectors; Gene therapy; Nervous system -- Diseases -- Gene therapy; Adenoviruses; Retroviruses
Notes: Includes bibliographic references and index.
Table of contents: title: Section I. Virus vectors for use in the central nervous system. Nonneurotropic adenovirus: a vector for gene transfer to the brain and gene therapy of neurological disorders / Pedro R. Lowenstein ... [et al.]. Adeno-associated viral vectors / E. Lehtonen and L. Tenenbaum. Problems in the use of herpes simplex virus as a vector / Lawrence T. Feldman. Lentiviral vectors / Johan Jakobsson ... [et al.]. Retroviral vectors for gene delivery to neural precursor cells / Ryoichiro Kageyama, Hiromi Hirata, and Jun Hatakeyama; title: Section II. Gene therapy with virus vectors for specific diseases of the nervous system. The principles of molecular therapies for glioblastoma / George Karpati and Josephine Nalbantoglu. Oncolytic herpes simplex virus for tumor therapy / Jennifer C. C. Hu and Robert S. Coffin. Recombinant retrovirus vectors for treatment of malignant brain tumors / Nikolai G. Rainov and Christof M. Kramm. Adeno-associated viral vectors for Parkinson's Disease / Shin-ichi Muramatsu ... [et al.]. Herpes simplex virus vectors for Parkinson's Disease / David S. Latchman. Gene therapy for stroke / K. Abe and W. R. Zhang. Gene therapy for mucopolysaccharidosis / Assumpcio Bosch and Jean Michel Heard.