Gene therapy for type 1 diabetes: Is it ready for the clinic?

  • Antonella D'Anneo
  • , Pleunie Rood
  • , Rita Bottino
  • , A. N. Balamurugan
  • , Jing He
  • , Nick Giannoukakis*
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

This review, in addition to updating the growing list of type 1 diabetes- relevant gene therapies, offers an outline of short-term objectives that can readily be met to move, at least, adenoviral and adeno-associated viral-based protocols into the clinic, first as a means of facilitating islet allografts as well as platforms with which to introduce immunoregulatory transgenes. A wide array of genes have been tested to restore insulin production, to drive the differentiation of insulin-producing progenitors, and to confer immunosuppression in an antigen- and tissue-restricted manner.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)83-89
Number of pages7
JournalImmunologic Research
Volume36
Issue number1-3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Sept 2006
Externally publishedYes

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