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Article: Biosensor-regulated gene therapy reduces heart attack damage in mice.
- Article from:
- Cardiovascular Week
- Article date:
- April 26, 2004
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2004 APR 26 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A novel gene therapy that responds specifically to oxygen-starved heart muscle may protect against further injury following a heart attack, a study by University of South Florida (USF) cardiovascular researchers has found.
Their study is reported in the April 2004 issue of the journal Hypertension.
M. Ian Phillips, PhD, DSc, and his team at the USF College of Medicine and All Children's Hospital Research Institute designed a kind of oxygen-sensitive biosensor that turns on protective genes when signs of oxygen deprivation indicate a heart attack and turns the genes off once blood flow restores adequate oxygen ...