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GENE THERAPY
Volume 18, Issue 6, Pages 546-552Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/gt.2010.168
Keywords
AAV vectors; molecular cardiac surgery; cardiac gene therapy
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- National Heart Lung and Blood Institute [1-R01-HL083078-01A2]
- CR Bridges
- NIH [P30-DK047757]
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We use a novel technique that allows for closed recirculation of vector genomes in the cardiac circulation using cardiopulmonary bypass, referred to here as molecular cardiac surgery with recirculating delivery (MCARD). We demonstrate that this platform technology is highly efficient in isolating the heart from the systemic circulation in vivo. Using MCARD, we compare the relative efficacy of single-stranded (ss) adeno-associated virus (AAV)6, ssAAV9 and self-complimentary (sc)AAV6-encoding enhanced green fluorescent protein, driven by the constitutive cytomegalovirus promoter to transduce the ovine myocardium in situ. MCARD allows for the unprecedented delivery of up to 48 green fluorescent protein genome copies per cell globally in the sheep left ventricular (LV) myocardium. We demonstrate that scAAV6-mediated MCARD delivery results in global, cardiac-specific LV gene expression in the ovine heart and provides for considerably more robust and cardiac-specific gene delivery than other available delivery techniques such as intramuscular injection or intracoronary injection; thus, representing a potential, clinically translatable platform for heart failure gene therapy. Gene Therapy (2011) 18, 546-552; doi: 10.1038/gt.2010.168; published online 13 January 2011
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