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ArticleJournal of biomedicine & biotechnology2003

In Vivo Noninvasive Imaging for Gene Therapy.

Georges Vassaux, Thomas Groot-Wassink

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Article in Journal of biomedicine & biotechnology, 2003. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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6 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

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2 authors.

Georges Vassaux
Thomas Groot-Wassink

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Gene therapy is reaching a stage where some clinical benefits have been demonstrated on patients involved in phase I/II clinical trials. However, in many cases, the clinical benefit is hardly measurable and progress in the improvement of gene therapy formulations is hampered by the lack of objective clinical endpoints to measure transgene delivery and to quantitate transgene expression. However, these endpoints rely almost exclusively on the analysis of biopsies by molecular and histopathological methods. These methods provide only a limited picture of the situation. Therefore, there is a need for a technology that would allow precise, spacio-temporal measurement of gene expression on a whole body scale upon administration of the gene delivery vector. In the field of gene therapy, a considerable effort is being invested in the development of noninvasive imaging of gene expression and this review presents the various strategies currently being developed.

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PMID12721514
PMCPMC323954

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