Novel Attempt Of Gene Therapy For Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus
Sunday, September 28, 2008 - 19:21
in Health & Medicine
There are considerable endocrine cells in gastrointestinal tracts. These cells may be the potential and ideal target cells in gene therapy of type 1 diabetes mellitus. Chitosan nanoparticle is a kind of non-viral vector. A research group in China investigated the gene therapy for type 1 diabetes mellitus in rats by gastrointestinal administration of chitosan nanoparticles containing human insulin gene.
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