A short perspective on gene therapy:Clinical experience on gene therapy of gliomablastoma multiforme

作     者：Thomas Wirth 

作者机构：AI Virtanen InstituteDepartment of Biotechnology and Molecular MedicineUniversity of Eastern FinlandNeulaniementie 2FIN-70211 KuopioFinland 

出 版 物：《World Journal of Experimental Medicine》 (世界实验医学杂志)

年 卷 期：2011年第1卷第1期

页      面：10-16页

学科分类：10[医学] 

主　　题：Gene therapy Glioblastoma multiforme Herpes simplex virus-thymidine kinase 

摘      要：More than two decades have passed since the first gene therapy clinical trial was *** this time,we have gained much knowledge regarding gene therapy in general,but also learned to understand the fear that persists in *** have experienced drawbacks and *** than 1700 clinical trials have been conducted where gene therapy is used as a means for *** the very first trial,patients with advanced melanoma were treated with tumor infiltrating lymphocytes genetically modified ex-vivo to express tumor necrosis *** the same time the first gene therapy trial was conducted,the ethical aspects of performing gene therapy on humans was intensively *** are the risks involved with gene therapy?Can we control the technology?What is ethically acceptable and what are the indications gene therapy can be used for?Initially,gene therapy was thought to be implemented mainly for the treatment of monogenetic diseases,such as adenosine deaminase ***,other therapeutic areas have become of interest and currently cancer is the most studied therapeutic area for gene therapy based *** this review I will be giving a short introduction into gene therapy and will direct the discussion to where we should go from ***,I will focus on the use of the Herpes simplex virus-thymidine kinase for gene therapy of malignant gliomas and highlight the efficacy of gene therapy for the treatment of malignant gliomas,but other strategies will also be mentioned.