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Gene Therapy in Inflammatory Diseases

Book information

Publisher
Birkhäuser Basel
Year
2000
ISBN
978-3-0348-9584-2, 978-3-0348-8478-5
DOI
10.1007/978-3-0348-8478-5
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
17 MB (17623763 bytes)
Series
Progress in Inflammation Research
Edition
1
Pages
260\263
Time added
2013-12-12 02:00:00

Description

Gene therapy for inflammatory diseases is a new , burgeoning field of medicine. Edited by the undisputed pioneers of this area of research, this volume is the first devoted to its topic. It contains thirteen chapters, each written by leaders in their respective fields, that summarize the state of the art in developing novel, gene based treatments for inflammatory diseases. As well as providing an introduction to the basic concepts of gene therapy and the use of naked DNA approaches, the book describes the advances that have been made in applying them to arthritis, lupus, multiple sclerosis, diabetes, Sjogren`s syndrome and transplantation.One chapter is devoted to discussing the first human clinical trials that apply gene therapy to the treatment of an inflammatory disease. As well as providing novel therapeutic approaches, gene therapy facilitates the development of new and improved animal models of disease; a chapter describing these advances is also included. As an up-to-date, timely book written by th

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