Progresses towards safe and efficient gene therapy vectors

S Chira, CS Jackson, I Oprea, F Ozturk… - …, 2015 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The emergence of genetic engineering at the beginning of the 1970′ s opened the era of
biomedical technologies, which aims to improve human health using genetic manipulation …

Cell based therapies for ischemic stroke: from basic science to bedside

X Liu, R Ye, T Yan, SP Yu, L Wei, G Xu, X Fan… - Progress in …, 2014 - Elsevier
Cell therapy is emerging as a viable therapy to restore neurological function after stroke.
Many types of stem/progenitor cells from different sources have been explored for their …

Stem cell‐based cell therapy for neuroprotection in stroke: A review

R Rikhtegar, M Yousefi, S Dolati… - Journal of cellular …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Neurological disorders, such as stroke, are triggered by a loss of neurons and glial cells.
Ischemic stroke remains a substantial problem for industrialized countries. Over the previous …

Intranasal delivery of nanomicelle curcumin promotes corneal epithelial wound healing in streptozotocin-induced diabetic mice

C Guo, M Li, X Qi, G Lin, F Cui, F Li, X Wu - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Corneal nerves are mainly derived from the ophthalmic branch of the trigeminal ganglion
(TG). Corneal neuropathy contributes to epithelial degenerative changes in diabetic …

Intranasal delivery of pGDNF DNA nanoparticles provides neuroprotection in the rat 6-hydroxydopamine model of Parkinson's disease

AEE Aly, BT Harmon, L Padegimas… - Molecular …, 2019 - Springer
Glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF) gene therapy could offer a disease-
modifying treatment for Parkinson's disease (PD). Here, we report that plasmid DNA …

Intranasal administration of plasmid DNA nanoparticles yields successful transfection and expression of a reporter protein in rat brain

BT Harmon, AE Aly, L Padegimas, O Sesenoglu-Laird… - Gene therapy, 2014 - nature.com
Viral vectors are a commonly used method for gene therapy because of their highly efficient
transduction of cells. However, many vectors have a small genetic capacity, and their …

Intranasal gene delivery for treating Parkinson's disease: overcoming the blood–brain barrier

AEE Aly, BL Waszczak - Expert opinion on drug delivery, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: Develo** a disease-modifying gene therapy for Parkinson's disease (PD)
has been a high priority for over a decade. However, due to the inability of large …

Intranasal delivery: circumventing the iron curtain to treat neurological disorders

Y Jiang, Y Li, X Liu - Expert opinion on drug delivery, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: The blood–brain barrier (BBB) is like an iron curtain that prevents exogenous
substances, including most drugs, from entering the CNS. Intranasal delivery has been …

Tetracycline inhibits local inflammation induced by cerebral ischemia via modulating autophagy

Y Jiang, J Zhu, L Wu, G Xu, J Dai, X Liu - PloS one, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Background Tetracycline exerts neuroprotection via suppressing the local inflammation
induced by cerebral ischemia. However, the underlying mechanism is not completely clear …

Potent antitumor effect of intranasally administrable pH-sensitive and photothermal polymeric oncolytic adenovirus for the treatment of brain cancer

Y Zhao, D Kasala, A Jiao, SH Lee, JW Hong… - Chemical Engineering …, 2025 - Elsevier
Oncolytic viruses showed promising therapeutic effect against brain cancer in clinical trials.
To further improve oncolytic viruses' potency against brain cancer, combination of oncolytic …