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- Title
Closed-circuit organ perfusion technique for gene transfer into the lungs. An experimental trial on farm pigs.
- Authors
Parpala-Spårman, T.; Pääkkö, P.; Kortteinen, P.; Salonurmi, T.; Lukkarinen, O.; Tryggvason, K.
- Abstract
In an attempt to develop gene therapy for lung diseases, we have explored a closed-circuit surgical perfusion method for gene transfer into the lung. For gene transfer we used a replication defective type 5 adenovirus carrying the E. coli β-galactosidase gene as a reporter gene. The middle lobe of the right lung of eight young farm pigs was perfused in vivo via thoracotomy for up to 60 min with the viral solution. The gene transfer was performed using a closed-circuit organ perfusion method in vivo. The efficiency of gene transfer was assessed visually by analysis of histologic sections after X-gal, PAS and immunohistochemical stainings. The lung perfusion resulted in transgene expression in the alveolar epithelial cells, capillary endothelial cells, airway epithelial cells and alveolar macrophages of the lung examined seven days after perfusion. The present results suggest that operatively performed closed-circuit warm lung perfusion method may be used for gene transfer in treatment of diseases that have pulmonary manifestations.
- Subjects
LUNG diseases; PERFUSION; GENE therapy
- Publication
European Journal of Clinical Investigation, 2001, Vol 31, Issue 3, p264
- ISSN
0014-2972
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1046/j.1365-2362.2001.00772.x