Treatment of genetic diseases
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Treatment of genetic diseases
Churchill Livingstone, 1991
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  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This text examines the various techniques available for the treatment of genetic diseases and is aimed at medical geneticists, paediatricians and haematologists. The 66 contributors, from the USA, France, The Netherlands, Japan, Australia and the USSR consider metabolic therapy, bone marrow transplantation, enzyme replacement therapy, gene transfer strategies and in-utero therapy.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Metabolic therapy: Nutritional therapy in inborn errors of metabolism
- approaches to the dietary management of hyperphenylalaninemia
- advances in the treatment of amino acid and organic acid disorders
- therapeutic applications of l-carnitine in metabolic disorders
- treatment of urea cycle disorders
- therapy for cystinosis
- therapy for x-linked adrenoleukodystrophy. Part 2 Enzyme replacement therapy: Enzyme replacement - overview and prospects
- enzyme replacement therapy for type I Gaucher disease
- PEG-enzyme replacement therapy for adenosine deaminase deficiency. Part 3 Bone marrow transplantation: Transplantation in animal model systems
- bone marrow transplantation for storage diseases
- bone marrow transplantation as treatment for globoid cell leukodystrophy. Part IV Gene therapy and in-utero therapy: Human gene therapy - strategies and prospects for inborn errors of metabolism
- gene transfer into hematopoietic and skin cells
- delivery and expression of genes in hepatocycles
- herpes simplex virus a vector for neurones
- inutero therapy for genetic diseases.
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