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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
5
pubmed:dateCreated
2004-6-2
pubmed:abstractText
Cytomegalovirus (CMV) is responsible for significant morbidity and mortality in immunocompromised patients undergoing allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. The limitations of antiviral drugs and a better understanding of the cellular immune response to CMV has lead to the development of alternative therapies that restore host cellular immunity to CMV. Infusion of donor T lymphocytes results in variable protection against CMV but a high incidence of graft-versus-host disease in the allogeneic setting. To prevent this complication and further improve anti-CMV immune response, several groups have developed new approaches, such as the introduction of a suicide gene to control alloreactivity against the host or the selective activation of CMV-specific T cells by antigen-presenting cells expressing CMV antigens introduced by gene transfer. Depending on the target cells and the strategy chosen, adenovirus, retrovirus or poxviruses derived vectors are used for gene transfer. The protocols as well as the preclinical and clinical results obtained in the field of anti-CMV immunotherapy using gene transfer are reported and discussed.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
May
pubmed:issn
0198-8859
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
65
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
565-70
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-4-21
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:15172458-Antigen-Presenting Cells, pubmed-meshheading:15172458-Antigens, Viral, pubmed-meshheading:15172458-B-Lymphocytes, pubmed-meshheading:15172458-Cytomegalovirus, pubmed-meshheading:15172458-Cytomegalovirus Infections, pubmed-meshheading:15172458-Dendritic Cells, pubmed-meshheading:15172458-Gene Therapy, pubmed-meshheading:15172458-Genes, Transgenic, Suicide, pubmed-meshheading:15172458-Genetic Vectors, pubmed-meshheading:15172458-Graft vs Host Disease, pubmed-meshheading:15172458-Herpesvirus 4, Human, pubmed-meshheading:15172458-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:15172458-Immunocompromised Host, pubmed-meshheading:15172458-Immunotherapy, pubmed-meshheading:15172458-Leukocytes, Mononuclear, pubmed-meshheading:15172458-Phosphoproteins, pubmed-meshheading:15172458-T-Lymphocytes, pubmed-meshheading:15172458-T-Lymphocytes, Cytotoxic, pubmed-meshheading:15172458-Thymidine Kinase, pubmed-meshheading:15172458-Transfection, pubmed-meshheading:15172458-Vaccination, pubmed-meshheading:15172458-Viral Matrix Proteins
pubmed:year
2004
pubmed:articleTitle
Gene transfer for activation of CMV specific T cells.
pubmed:affiliation
INSERM U429 (I.A-S., M.C-C.), Hopital Necker-Enfants Malades, Paris, France. andre-schmutz@necker.fr
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Review