Publication Date:
1999-10-16
Description:
Gene therapy for the treatment of disease in children and adults is being actively pursued at many medical centers. However, a number of genetic disorders result in irreversible damage to the fetus before birth. In these cases, as well as for those with genetic diseases who may benefit from therapy before symptoms are manifested, in utero gene therapy (IUGT) could be beneficial. Although some successes with in utero gene transfer have been reported in animals, significant questions remain to be answered before IUGT clinical trials would be acceptable. This review analyzes the state of the art and delineates the studies that still need to be performed before it would be appropriate to consider human IUGT.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Zanjani, E D -- Anderson, W F -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1999 Sep 24;285(5436):2084-8.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Veterans Administration Medical Center, University of Nevada, Reno, NV 89520, USA. zanjani@scs.unr.edu〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10523208" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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Female
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Fetal Diseases/*therapy
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*Fetus
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Gene Transfer Techniques
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Genetic Diseases, Inborn/*therapy
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*Genetic Therapy/adverse effects
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Genetic Vectors
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Germ Cells
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Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation
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Hematopoietic Stem Cells/cytology/physiology
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Humans
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Pregnancy
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
