rethinkPeptides Search
Menu
Study breakdown

Engineering Immune Cells to Produce VIP: Gene Therapy for Self-Tolerizing Dendritic Cells

evidence
The takeaway

Dendritic cells transduced with lentiviral VIP vectors became VIP-secreting tolerogenic DCs, creating self-sustaining anti-inflammatory immune cells for autoimmune disease gene therapy.

Key finding

Dendritic cells transduced with lentiviral VIP vectors became VIP-secreting tolerogenic DCs, creating self-sustaining anti-inflammatory immune cells f

What the researchers found

Dendritic cells transduced with lentiviral VIP vectors became VIP-secreting tolerogenic DCs, creating self-sustaining anti-inflammatory immune cells for autoimmune disease gene therapy.

Why it matters

Relevant for peptide research.

How the study worked

research study.

What this study cannot tell us

See abstract.

How to read the evidence

emerging evidence.

When this study was published

Published in 2010.

The bigger picture

Advances peptide research.

Questions still open

  • Further research needed.

Common questions

What was studied?
Engineering Immune Cells to Produce VIP: Gene Therapy for Self-Tolerizing Dendritic Cells
What was found?
Dendritic cells transduced with lentiviral VIP vectors became VIP-secreting tolerogenic DCs, creating self-sustaining anti-inflammatory immune cells for autoimmune disease gene therapy.

Read the original research

Dendritic cells transduced with lentiviral vectors expressing VIP differentiate into VIP-secreting tolerogenic-like DCs.

Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy, 18(5), 1035-45

Citation

Toscano, Miguel G; Delgado, Mario; Kong, Weimin; Martin, Francisco; Skarica, Mario; Ganea, Doina. (2010). Dendritic cells transduced with lentiviral vectors expressing VIP differentiate into VIP-secreting tolerogenic-like DCs.. Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy, 18(5), 1035-45. https://doi.org/10.1038/mt.2009.293