Southwestern Internal Medicine Conference: prospects for gene therapy of ischemic heart disease.
Discrete steps in the pathophysiology of ischemic heart disease present attractive potential targets for therapeutic applications of gene transfer technologies. This review develops a conceptual basis for gene therapy of ischemic heart disease and provides examples of current research efforts in this field.
Williams
R S
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University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas 75235-8573.
D015316:Genetic Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D017202:Myocardial Ischemia / Q000628:therapy*; D014162:Transfection / Q000379:methods