Xiaozhuo Chen, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Ohio University
Transgenic Animal Disease Models

Office: 109 Konneker Research Center
Phone: 740-593-4713
Fax: 740-593-4795
Email: chenx@ohio.edu

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Research Summary:

     Current research interests include cancer gene therapy and nucleic acid vaccination, gene expression vector design and development, mammalian gene expression and transfer, ribozyme and antisense rna, gene cloning and gene function identification, transgenic animal disease models.

Selected References:

  • Sturtz, F., Waddell, K., Shulok, J., Chen, X., Caruso, M., Sanson, M., Platika, D., and Snodgrass, R. Parameters influencing the Efficiency of the Thymidine Kinase/Ganciclovir (TK/GCV) System in Human Glioblastoma Cell Lines. Stereotactic Funct. Neurosurg. (In press).

  • Sturtz, F., Li, Y., Shulok, J., and Chen, X. A Nonviral Cytoplasmic T7 Autogene System and Its Applications in DNA Vaccination. In DNA Vaccines: Methods and Protocols in the Series of Methods in Molecular Medicine, (In press), 1998.

  • Chen, X., Li, Y., Xiong, K., Xie, Y., Aizicovici, S., Wagner, T., and Platika, D. Cancer Gene Therapy By Direct Injection Of A Nonviral T7 Cytoplasmic Expression Vector Encoding A Thymidine Kinase Gene. Human Gene Therapy, 9:729-736, 1998.

  • Kopchick, J., Chen, X., Li, Y., Steger, R., Yun, J., Wagner, T., and Bartke, A. Differential In Vivo Activities of Bovine Growth Hormone Analogs. Transgenic Research, 7:61-71, 1998.

  • Xie, Y., Chen, X., and Wagner, T. E. A Novel Ribozyme Mediated, Gene "Knockdown" Strategy For The Identification of Gene Function in Zebrafish. Proc Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 94:13777-13781, 1997.

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