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Applications of Gene Therapy to Neurological Diseases and Injuries

Year: 1998

Type: other

Abstract: The concept of gene therapy has been expanded to include molecular genetic techniques to deliver therapeutic molecules for the treatment of any disease, genetic or nongenetic. Potential applications of gene therapy for the nervous system include correction of inherited errors of metabolism that affect the nervous system, delivery of toxic gene products to brain tumors, delivery of neuroprotective molecules to neuronal populations undergoing degeneration, and replacement of neurotransmitter-synthesizing enzymes. Such applications are the subject of this chapter.

Source: Wiley eBooks

DOI: 10.1002/0471223956.ch20

Authors: Derek L. Choi‐Lundberg, Martha C. Bohn

Institutions: University of Rochester Medicine, University of Rochester, Northwestern University

Language: English

Topic: Virus-based gene therapy research

Subfield: Genetics

Field: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Domain: Life Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W1591506555

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