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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2014-05-01
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Series: | Neurobiology of Disease |
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Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0969996114000230 |