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Once inside the body the vector introduces the therapeutic gene into host cells, and the protein encoded by the newly inserted gene is then produced by the body's own cells. [11] This type of therapy can correct for the missing protein/enzyme in patients with lysosomal storage diseases. [1]
Patients with low activity (10% prevalence) or especially absent activity (prevalence 0.3%) are at a heightened risk of drug-induced bone marrow toxicity due to accumulation of the unmetabolised drug. Reuther et al. found that about 5% of all thiopurine therapies will fail due to toxicity. This intolerant group could be anticipated by routine ...
1559 72303 Ensembl ENSG00000138109 ENSMUSG00000067231 UniProt P11712 n/a RefSeq (mRNA) NM_000771 NM_028191 RefSeq (protein) NP_000762 n/a Location (UCSC) Chr 10: 94.94 – 94.99 Mb Chr 19: 39.05 – 39.08 Mb PubMed search Wikidata View/Edit Human View/Edit Mouse Cytochrome P450 family 2 subfamily C member 9 (abbreviated CYP2C9) is an enzyme protein. The enzyme is involved in the metabolism, by ...
GDEPT is a suicide gene therapy in which the enzyme required for prodrug conversion is produced within the target cell, using a gene delivered to it by gene therapy. When an adequate differential exists between the targeted cell and endogenous tissue, non-toxic prodrug is administered and is subsequently converted into its toxic form within the ...
It exposes T cells to normal, healthy proteins from all parts of the body, and T cells that react to those proteins are destroyed. Each T cell recognizes a specific antigen when it is presented in complex with a major histocompatibility complex (MHC) molecule by an antigen presenting cell .
Cell therapy (also called cellular therapy, cell transplantation, or cytotherapy) is a therapy in which viable cells are injected, grafted or implanted into a patient in order to effectuate a medicinal effect, [1] for example, by transplanting T-cells capable of fighting cancer cells via cell-mediated immunity in the course of immunotherapy, or ...
The hTERT gene has become a main focus for gene therapy involving cancer due to its expression in tumor cells but not somatic adult cells. [45] One method is to prevent the translation of hTERT mRNA through the introduction of siRNA, which are complementary sequences that bind to the mRNA preventing processing of the gene post transcription. [46]
Histamine N-methyltransferase is encoded by a single gene, called HNMT, which has been mapped to chromosome 2 in humans. [5]Three transcript variants have been identified for this gene in humans, which produce different protein isoforms [6] [5] due to alternative splicing, which allows a single gene to code for multiple proteins by including or excluding particular exons of a gene in the final ...