{"id":692,"date":"2010-01-19T10:16:36","date_gmt":"2010-01-19T15:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gsi\/?p=692"},"modified":"2010-01-19T10:16:36","modified_gmt":"2010-01-19T15:16:36","slug":"busm-researchers-discover-gene-therapy-to-help-prevent-progression-of-emphysema","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gsi\/2010\/01\/19\/busm-researchers-discover-gene-therapy-to-help-prevent-progression-of-emphysema\/","title":{"rendered":"BUSM Researchers discover gene therapy to help prevent progression of emphysema"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have discovered a new gene therapy that may prevent the progression of emphysema. The study, which appears on-line in the <em>Journal of Clinical Investigation<\/em>, describes a method to express therapeutic genes in lung tissue for a lifetime after only a single treatment.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/phpbin\/news\/releases\/display.php?id=1989\" target=\"_blank\">Click here for details<\/a>.   Wilson AA, Murphy GJ, Hamakawa H, Kwok LW, Srinivasan S, Hovav AH, Mulligan RC, Amar S, Suki B, Kotton DN. Amelioration of emphysema in mice through lentiviral transduction of long-lived pulmonary alveolar macrophages. J ClinInvest. 2010 Jan;120(1):379-89. doi: 10.1172\/JCI36666. Epub 2009 Dec 21. PubMed PMID: 20038801; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2798672.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have discovered a new gene therapy that may prevent the progression of emphysema. The study, which appears on-line in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, describes a method to express therapeutic genes in lung tissue for a lifetime after only a single treatment. Click here for details. Wilson [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1231,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1231"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=692"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":695,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions\/695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}