L13: GENE THERAPY

Question 1

is a potential method to either treat or cure genetic-related human illnesses.

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Gene therapy

Question 2

” which enables the transfer of genes to the, inaccessible outer hair cells when introduced into the cochlea

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Question 2

Human gene therapy was actually first realized in ??? when the first recombinant DNA experiments were planned. It

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1971

Question 3

There are several approaches to gene therapy. These are the following (Fliester, 2017):

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• Replacement of mutated gene that causes disease with a healthy copy of the gene
• Inactivation of a mutated gene that is functioning improperly
• Introducing a new gene into the body to help fight a disease

Question 4

Two Types of Gene Therapy

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Somatice Gene Therapy
germ-line gene therapy

Question 5

involves the manipulation of genes in cells that will be helpful to the patient but not inherited to the next generation

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Somatic gene therapy

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which involves the genetic modification of germ cells or the origin cells that will pass the change on to the next generation

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germ-line gene therapy

Question 7

are mother cells that have the potential to become any type of cell in the body.

One of the main characteristics of stem cells is their ability to self-renew or multiply while maintaining the potential to develop into other types of cells.

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Stem cells

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Stem cells are derived from different sources. s.

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embryonic and somatic stem cell

Question 9

are derived from a four- or five-day-old human embryo that is in the blastocyst phase of development.

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embryonic stem cells

Question 10

cells are ceils that exist throughout the body after embryonic development and are found inside of different types of tissue.

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somatic stem