The purpose of this review article is to present a logical rationale for the investigation of conditionally replicative adenoviral vectors for the treatment of ovarian carcinoma. A medline database search was performed to identify relevant articles in the English language for the years 1966 to present. The key words used included replicative adenovirus, conditionally replicative adenovirus, tra...

Gene therapy utilizing replication deficient adenoviral vectors represents a potentially promising approach to the treatment of brain tumors. Limited duration of systemic transgene expression and inefficient transduction following repeat systemic vector administration secondary to an effective anti-vector immune response limits the potential application of first generation adenoviral vectors. W...

Many approaches for treating hemophilia via gene transfer have been attempted in large animal models but all have potential drawbacks. Recombinant adenoviral vectors offer high-efficiency transfer of an episomal vector but have been plagued by the cytotoxicity/immunogenicity of early-generation vectors that contain viral genes. In our current study, we have used a nonintegrating helper-dependen...

objective(s):diabetic nephropathy is an important long-term complication of diabetes mellitus which appears to be partially mediated by an increase in secretion of transforming growth factor-β (tgf-β). fibromodulin, the small leucine-rich proteoglycan, has been proposed to be the potent tgfβ1 modulator. in this study, the therapeutic effects of recombinant adenoviral vectors expressing fibromod...