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Gene Therapy for Cancer: Questions and Answers
Key Points
Gene therapy is an experimental treatment that involves introducing genetic material into a person’s cells to fight or prevent disease (see Question 2).
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Gene expression: The translation of information encoded in a gene into protein or RNA.
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Gene: The basic biological unit of heredity. A segment of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) needed to contribute to a function.
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Vitamin, Gene, and Enzyme Replacement Therapy
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Located in the nucleus of the cell, genes contain hereditary information that is transferred from cell to cell.
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Gene could hold key to hearing loss
29 August 2006
Researchers funded by The Royal National Institute for Deaf People (RNID) believe they have discovered a gene that causes hearing loss in old age.
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The Gene Chip: The Future of Lymphoma Diagnosis?
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GENE: 1. A unit of DNA that carries information for the biosynthesis of a specific product in the cell. 2. Ultimate unit by which inheritable characteristics are transmitted to succeeding generations in all living organisms.
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Gene therapy
Specific genes in your body might direct cells to manufacture substances that help reduce inflammation or protect your joints. The goal of gene therapy is to increase the production of these protective substances.
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Gene Expression and DNA Repair
Research Interest:
Expression of mRNA in eukaryotic cells requires several dozen transcription factors in addition to RNA polymerase II.
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Gene therapy seems elegantly simple in its concept: supply the human body with a gene that can correct a biological malfunction that causes a disease.
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Gene therapy looks increasingly promising as a treatment for retinitis pigmentosa in Usher syndrome, although it is still many years away.
This article was last medically reviewed by Dr Rob Hicks in December 2005.
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gene expression profiling
A research method that measures messenger RNA made from many different genes in various cell types.
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Gene May Help Spur Deadly Brain Aneurysms
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Gene Tunney advised his students:
"Take regular exercise"not violent weekends of golf or sporadic bursts of squash, but a daily drill that becomes as much a part of your life as brushing your teeth." ...
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A gene called Frataxin (FXN), located on chromosome 9, is involved. Changes in the gene result in many extra copies of a DNA segment called a trinucleotide repeat (GAA).
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If a gene is abnormal, it may code for an abnormal protein or for an abnormal amount of a normal protein. Since the autosomal chromosomes are paired, there are 2 copies of each gene.
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Trinam Gene-based therapy—vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) gene delivered via a biodegradable collar/reservoir device— for the prevention of intimal hyperplasia in certain vascular anastomoses to reduce stenotic complications.
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A damaged gene that may produce a disease or deficiency.
mute
An inability or unwillingness to speak.
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In 1993 the gene responsible for the disease was located; within that gene a small segment of code is, for some reason, copied over and over.
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If an abnormal gene is inherited from one parent, the body makes only half of the usual number of docking sites. If the abnormal gene is inherited from both parents, the body makes no docking sites.
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NEW COLON CANCER GENE TEST OF LIMITED HELP TO MOST PEOPLE
Question: I know several people that have recently found out they have colon cancer. One of them is even younger than I am (41 years old). Why is there so much colon cancer?
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People who have a gene for apolipoprotein E-4 (ApoE-4) may be more likely to develop the disease, but the presence of the gene cannot predict for sure whether a person will develop Alzheimer's disease.
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In higher plants, the importance of the circadian clock is reflected by the fact that its rhythm influences such diverse activities as gene transcription, gas exchange and transpiration, photosynthesis, plant growth and flowering.
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To have a fully developed case of sickle cell anemia, one gene for the illness must be inherited from both parents.
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Unfortunately, there is currently no way to correct a defective gene. Improved therapies, however, are giving children with serious genetic disorders longer, more comfortable lives. The outlook may improve even more in the next few decades.
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Huntington's disease is inherited as a single faulty gene on chromosome #4. There is a part of the gene that is repeated in multiple copies.
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The chance of acquiring a dominant disease (one gene copy is enough) is higher than the chance of acquiring a recessive disease (two gene copies are needed).
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AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE - Requires that both parents carry traits for the gene in order for it to be passed to their offspring.
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The disease results from mutations in a gene called ATM. The most obvious symptoms of the disease are multiple telangiectases that are easily visible in the white of the eye and skin areas such as the ear and nose, graying of the hair, ...
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Eye Diseases, Hereditary - Transmission of gene defects or chromosomal aberrations/abnormalities which are expressed in extreme variation in the structure or function of the eye.
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In addition, the paper focuses on the significance of reducing tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNFalpha) gene expression in cells and TNFalpha release from cells as essential activities for cancer prevention.
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Because sickle cell anemia is inherited, it can be prevented if couples who both carry the sickle cell trait gene do not have children.
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All type I glycogen storage diseases are inherited in an autosomal recessive manner. Autosomal chromosomes are the non-sex chromosomes. If both parents are carriers of the mutated gene, ...
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