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ArticleNanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland)2019

Suicide Gene Therapy By Amphiphilic Copolymer Nanocarrier for Spinal Cord Tumor.

So-Jung Gwak, Jeoung Soo Lee

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Article in Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland), 2019. 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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6citing papers in PubMed
1.4field-weighted citation impact, top 17% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

So-Jung GwakDepartment of Bioengineering, Drug Design, Development and Delivery (4D) Laboratory, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634-0905, USA. plus38317@gmail.com.
Jeoung Soo LeeDepartment of Bioengineering, Drug Design, Development and Delivery (4D) Laboratory, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634-0905, USA. ljspia@clemson.edu.
Clemson University · USWonkwang University · KR

Funding

Targeted Nano-therapeutics for Neural RegenerationP20GM103444 · NIGMS · CLEMSON UNIVERSITY · PI MARKWALD, ROGER R, VYAVAHARE, NAREN R · 2012 to 2018
$14.9M
Transnational Research Imaging Core (TRI)P30GM131959 · NIGMS · CLEMSON UNIVERSITY · PI VYAVAHARE, NAREN R · 2019 to 2023
$5.9M
Neuron-specific nanotherapeutics for spinal cord injury repairR01NS111037 · NINDS · CLEMSON UNIVERSITY · PI LEE, JEOUNG SOO · 2019 to 2022
$1.3M
NIGMS NIH HHS P20 GM103444NIGMS NIH HHS P30 GM131959NIH HHS 5P20GM103444-07NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS111037
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Spinal cord tumors (SCT) are uncommon neoplasms characterized by irregular growth of tissue inside the spinal cord that can result in non-mechanical back pain. Current treatments for SCT include surgery, radiation therapy, and chemotherapy, but these conventional therapies have many limitations. Suicide gene therapy using plasmid encoding herpes simplex virus-thymidine kinase (pHSV-TK) and ganciclovir (GCV) has been an alternative approach to overcome the limitations of current therapies. However, there is a need to develop a carrier that can deliver both pHSV-TK and GCV for improving therapeutic efficacy. Our group developed a cationic, amphiphilic copolymer, poly (lactide-co-glycolide) -graft-polyethylenimine (PgP), and demonstrated its efficacy as a drug and gene carrier in both cell culture studies and animal models. In this study, we evaluated PgP as a gene carrier and demonstrate that PgP can efficiently deliver reporter genes, pGFP in rat glioma (C6) cells in vitro, and pβ-gal in a rat T5 SCT model in vivo. We also show that PgP/pHSV-TK with GCV treatment showed significantly higher anticancer activity in C6 cells compared to PgP/pHSV-TK without GCV treatment. Finally, we demonstrate that PgP/pHSV-TK with GCV treatment increases the suicide effect and apoptosis of tumor cells and reduces tumor size in a rat T5 SCT model.

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ganciclovirnon-viral gene deliveryspinal cord tumorsuicide gene therapy

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PMID30965667
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