Pharmacologically controlled, discontinuous GDNF gene therapy restores motor function in a rat model of Parkinson's disease

Neurotrophic factors have raised hopes to be able to cure symptoms and to prevent progressive neurodegeneration in devastating neurological diseases. Gene therapy by means of viral vectors can overcome the hurdle of targeted delivery, but its current configuration is irreversible and thus much less...

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Main Authors: Julia Tereshchenko, Andrea Maddalena, Mathias Bähr, Sebastian Kügler
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2014-05-01
Series:Neurobiology of Disease
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0969996114000230