Gene Transfer and Therapy in the Nervous System: Research and Perspectives in Neurosciences

Somatic Cell Gene Therapy.- Delivery of Nerve Growth Factor Within the Rat Brain Using Genetically Modified Cells.- A Potential Approach to Gene Therapy of Cancer.- Phenotypic Plasticity and Neural Grafting.- The Sympathoadrenal Progenitor of the Neural Crest: Basic Biology and Therapeutic Potential.- Lineage, Migration, and Phenotype in Avian Optic Tectum: Analysis with Recombinant Retroviral Vectors.- Immortal Mammalian Neuronal Stem Cells Differentiate after Implantation into the Developing Brain.- Establishment of Clonal Cell Lines for the Study of Neural Function and Dysfunction.- Resistance of SOD-Transgenic Mice to Oxidative Stress.- Gene Transfer into the Nervous System using Recombinant Herpes Virus Vectors.- Development of Herpes Simplex Virus as a Gene Transfer Vector for the Central Nervous System.- Dystrophin mRNA Processing in the Canine Homologue of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy: An Authentic Model for Gene Therapy.- Gene Transfer of a Murine Dystophin Minigene Construct.- Gene Therapy in Animal Models of Neurological Disorders.- Neurotrophins and their Receptors.- Regulation of the Human Neurofilament Light and Heavy Genes in Transgenic Mice.