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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
1996-3-25
pubmed:abstractText
Current strategies for hepatic gene therapy are either quantitatively inefficient or suffer from lack of permanent gene expression. We have utilized an animal model of hereditary tyrosinaemia type I (HT1), a recessive liver disease caused by deficiency of fumarylacetoacetate hydrolase (FAH), to determine whether in vivo selection of corrected hepatocytes could improve the efficiency of liver gene transfer. As few as 1,000 transplanted wild-type hepatocytes were able to repopulate mutant liver, demonstrating their strong competitive growth advantage. Mutant hepatocytes corrected in situ by retroviral gene transfer were also positively selected. In mutant animals treated by multiple retrovirus injections >90% of hepatocytes became FAH positive and liver function was restored to normal. Our results demonstrate that in vivo selection is a useful strategy for hepatic gene therapy and may lead to effective treatment of human HT1 by retroviral gene transfer.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:commentsCorrections
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Mar
pubmed:issn
1061-4036
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
12
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
266-73
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-14
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:8589717-Amino Acid Metabolism, Inborn Errors, pubmed-meshheading:8589717-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:8589717-Cell Count, pubmed-meshheading:8589717-Cell Transplantation, pubmed-meshheading:8589717-Cyclohexanones, pubmed-meshheading:8589717-Disease Models, Animal, pubmed-meshheading:8589717-Enzyme Inhibitors, pubmed-meshheading:8589717-Gene Therapy, pubmed-meshheading:8589717-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:8589717-Hydrolases, pubmed-meshheading:8589717-Immunoenzyme Techniques, pubmed-meshheading:8589717-Liver, pubmed-meshheading:8589717-Liver Function Tests, pubmed-meshheading:8589717-Liver Neoplasms, pubmed-meshheading:8589717-Male, pubmed-meshheading:8589717-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:8589717-Mice, Inbred C57BL, pubmed-meshheading:8589717-Nitrobenzoates, pubmed-meshheading:8589717-Retroviridae, pubmed-meshheading:8589717-Tyrosine
pubmed:year
1996
pubmed:articleTitle
Hepatocytes corrected by gene therapy are selected in vivo in a murine model of hereditary tyrosinaemia type I.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Molecular and Medical Genetics, Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland 97201, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't