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ReviewMolecular biotechnology2007

Gene delivery by lentivirus vectors.

Adam S Cockrell, Tal Kafri

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Review in Molecular biotechnology, 2007. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 141 papers.

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141citing papers in PubMed
15.0field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

141 citing papers in PubMed, 360 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Overview of the DREADDs chemogenetics and the patent landscape of their actuators.Medicinal chemistry research : an international journal for rapid communications on design and mechanisms of action of biologically active agents · 2026
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  5. Properties and Application of Pseudotyped Lentiviral Vectors.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2026
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  6. Smart micro/nanoneedles for gene delivery.Iranian journal of basic medical sciences · 2026
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  9. Production and Purification of Lentiviral Vectors.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2026
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81 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Adam S CockrellGene Therapy Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA.
Tal Kafri
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The capacity to efficiently transduce nondividing cells, shuttle large genetic payloads, and maintain stable long-term transgene expression are attributes that have brought lentiviral vectors to the forefront of gene delivery vehicles for research and therapeutic applications in a clinical setting. Our discussion initiates with advances in lentiviral vector development and how these sophisticated lentiviral vectors reflect improvements in safety, regarding the prevention of replication competent lentiviruses (RCLs), vector mobilization, and insertional mutagenesis. Additionally, we describe conventional molecular regulatory systems to manage gene expression levels in a spatial and temporal fashion in the context of a lentiviral vector. State of the art technology for lentiviral vector production by transient transfection and packaging cell lines are explicitly presented with current practices used for concentration, purification, titering, and determining the safety of a vector stock. We summarize lentiviral vector applications that have received a great deal of attention in recent years including the generation of transgenic animals and the stable delivery of RNA interference molecules. Concluding remarks address some of the successes in preclinical animals, and the recent transition of lentiviral vectors to human clinical trials as therapy for a variety of infectious and genetic diseases.

Indexed as

Gene Transfer TechniquesAnimalsGenes, gagGenes, polGenetic TherapyGenetic VectorsHumansLentivirusMutagenesis, InsertionalTransgenesVirus Assembly

Identifiers

PMID17873406
OpenAlexW2049340874

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