Soft tissue sarcomas do not generally metastasise via lymphatics, and the presence or absence of lymphatic vessels within sarcomas and benign soft tissue tumours is not known. In this study, we… (More)
Antiangiogenic gene transfer has the potential to be more efficacious than protein-based therapies or pharmacotherapies for the control of solid tumor growth, invasion and metastasis. For a sustained… (More)
Gene therapy for osteopenic conditions including osteoporosis is a potential alternative to pharmacotherapy for cost effectiveness, long-term viability, and the ability to enhance bone mass by… (More)
Dendritic cells (DCs) are pivotal antigen-presenting cells for regulating immune responses. A major focus of contemporary vaccine research is the genetic modification of DCs to express antigens or… (More)
Towards utilizing gene-targeted, repopulating mesenchymal stem cells (MSC) to increase osteogenesis, we evaluated the expression of bone-specific promoters during MSC differentiation. Multi-lineage… (More)
Histones were extracted from the liver of young, adult and old Japanese quails. Both linker and core histones were found to vary with age. An extra band, H3X, was found between H2A and H4. Its level… (More)
The development of targeted vectors, capable of tissue-specific transduction, remains one of the important aspects of vector modification for gene therapy applications. Recombinant adeno-associated… (More)
Recombinant adeno-associated virus 2 (rAAV) vectors have been successfully used for sustained expression of therapeutic genes. The potential of using rAAV as a cancer vaccine vector and the impact of… (More)
Alpha isoform of smooth muscle actin (SMA) expression has been reported in giant cell tumour of bone (GCTB) and other benign and malignant bone tumours, but the pattern of SMA expression and the… (More)
Discrete Fourier transform (DFT) is widespread used in many fields of science and engineering. DFT is implemented with efficient algorithms categorized as Fast Fourier Transform. A fast algorithm is… (More)