Protection is not always a good thing: The immune system’s impact on gene therapy



Título del documento: Protection is not always a good thing: The immune system’s impact on gene therapy
Revista: Genetics and molecular biology
Base de datos: PERIÓDICA
Número de sistema: 000459278
ISSN: 1415-4757
Autores: 1
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Instituciones: 1Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre, Centro de Pesquisa Experimental, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul. Brasil
2Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Instituto de Biociencias, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul. Brasil
Año:
Volumen: 45
Número: 3
País: Brasil
Idioma: Inglés
Tipo de documento: Artículo
Enfoque: Descriptivo
Resumen en inglés There are many clinical trials underway for the development of gene therapies, and some have resulted in gene therapy products being commercially approved already. Significant progress was made to develop safer and more effective strategies to deliver and regulate genetic products. An unsolved aspect is the immune system, which can affect the efficiency of gene therapy in different ways. Here we present an overview of approved gene therapy products and the immune response elicited by gene delivery systems. These include responses against the vector or its content after delivery and against the product of the corrected gene. Strategies to overcome the hurdles include hiding the vector or/and the transgene product from the immune system and hiding the immune system from the vector/transgene product. Combining different strategies, such as patient screening and intelligent vector design, gene therapy is set to make a difference in the life of patients with severe genetic diseases
Disciplinas: Biología,
Medicina
Palabras clave: Inmunología,
Genética,
Terapia génica,
Revisión bibliográfica
Keyword: Immunology,
Genetics,
Gene therapy,
Bibliographic review
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