throughouttheworld,willpro?tbythisseriesofAdvancesandTechnical StandardsinNeurosurgery. TheEditors Contents ListofContributors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . XIII Advances ¿ Gene Technology Based Therapies in the Brain. T. Wirth1,4 and S. Yla- Herttuala1,2,3, 1A. I. Virtanen Institute,University of Kuopio, Kuopio,F- land, 2DepartmentofMedicine,UniversityofKuopioandGeneTherapyUnit, Kuopio, Finland, 3Gene Therapy Unit, Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio, Finland,4ArkTherapeuticsOy,Kuopio,Finland Abstract. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 IntroductiontoGeneTherapy:ThePast,PresentandFuture. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 PotentialAreasforGeneTherapyintheBrain. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 GeneTherapyforParkinson¿sDisease. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 GeneTherapyforAlzheimer¿sDisease. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 GeneTherapyforVascularBrainDiseases. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 GeneTherapyforBrainTumours. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 ChallengesofGeneTherapyintheBrain. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 GeneTransferVectors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 ViralGeneTransferVectors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Retroviruses. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 HerpesSimplexVirus-1(HSV-1). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Adenoviruses. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

"... In summary, this volume of advances and technical standard in neurosurgery continues to fulfill the spirit of this attractive series of books by conveying the reader a focused information on the current advances in the neurosurgical field and, at the same time, a continuous reconsideration of the theoretical and technical armamentarium of the neurosurgical discipline ..." Child's Nervous System 23/2007

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