An edition of Gene therapy (2005)

Gene therapy

treating disease by repairing genes

  • 0 Ratings
  • 0 Want to read
  • 0 Currently reading
  • 0 Have read
Not in Library

My Reading Lists:

Create a new list

Check-In

×Close
Add an optional check-in date. Check-in dates are used to track yearly reading goals.
Today

  • 0 Ratings
  • 0 Want to read
  • 0 Currently reading
  • 0 Have read

Buy this book

Last edited by MARC Bot
June 30, 2019 | History
An edition of Gene therapy (2005)

Gene therapy

treating disease by repairing genes

  • 0 Ratings
  • 0 Want to read
  • 0 Currently reading
  • 0 Have read

This edition doesn't have a description yet. Can you add one?

Publish Date
Publisher
Facts On File
Language
English
Pages
172

Buy this book

Previews available in: English

Edition Availability
Cover of: Gene therapy
Gene therapy: treating disease by repairing genes
2005, Facts On File
electronic resource : in English

Add another edition?

Book Details


Table of Contents

Genetic disorders
Immune deficiencies
Breast cancer
Colon cancer
Melanoma
Cystic fibrosis
Hemophilia
Liver disease
Cardiovascular disease
Muscular dystrophy
Alzheimer's disease
Parkinson's disease
Huntington's disease
Viruses: the cornerstone of gene therapy
Viruses are living crystals
Viral genomes may be RNA or DNA
Viruses evolved from plasmids
Viruses know how to infect cells
The virus as a gene vehicle
Viruses used in gene therapy
Ashi DeSilva: a promising start
Clinical trials defined
Cells of the immune system
Adenosine deaminase (ADA)
Preliminary research
Clinical procedure for ADA gene therapy
The DeSilva clinical trial
Jesse Gelsinger: down to earth
Ornithine transcarbamylase (OTC)
Preliminary research
Clinical procedure for OTC gene therapy
The Gelsinger clinical trial
The investigation
Concluding remarks
Future prospects
Safer vehicles
Reducing immune rejection of the vector
Improved risk assessment
Redesigning human anatomy and physiology
Ethics of gene therapy
The Belmont report
Clinical trials
Physiological enhancement
Cosmetic applications
Legal issues
Regulatory agencies
The Gelsinger legal trial
International regulation
Resource center
Eucaryote cell primer
Recombinant DNA primer
The human genome project
X-linked severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID-X1)
Alzheimer's disease (AD)
Huntington's disease (HD).

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-155) and index.

Electronic access restricted to subscribers.

Text (HTML/netLibrary eBook) and search engine.

Electronic data. Boulder, Colo. : NetLibrary, 2005.

Mode of access: Intranet.

System requirements for online version: netLibrary eBook Reader (for off-line reading) ; Windows 95/98/NT 4.0 or higher ; Pentium 100, 32 MB RAM, 20MB free disk space ; not available for WebTV, Macintosh, Unix or Linux.

Available for non-commercial, internal use by students, staff, and faculty for academic and research purposes only.

Published in
New York, NY
Series
Facts on File science library, "new biology" series

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
615.8/95
Library of Congress
RB155.8 .P36 2005eb

The Physical Object

Format
[electronic resource] :
Pagination
xvii, 172 p. :
Number of pages
172

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL25546715M
Internet Archive
genetherapytreat00jose
ISBN 10
0816067341
OCLC/WorldCat
61710307

Community Reviews (0)

Feedback?
No community reviews have been submitted for this work.

Lists

This work does not appear on any lists.

History

Download catalog record: RDF / JSON
June 30, 2019 Edited by MARC Bot import existing book
July 29, 2014 Created by ImportBot import new book