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Liver-directed recombinant adeno-associated viral gene delivery rescues a lethal mouse model of methylmalonic acidemia and provides long-term phenotypic correction.
Human gene therapy - 1 Sept 2010
Carrillo-Carrasco Nuria, Chandler Randy J, Chandrasekaran Suma, Venditti Charles P
Abstract excerpt
Methylmalonic acidemia is a severe metabolic disorder caused by a deficiency of the ubiquitously expressed mitochondrial enzyme, methylmalonyl-CoA mutase (MUT). Liver transplantation has been used to treat a small number of patients with variable success, and whether liver-directed gene therapy m...
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