Recombent viral and non-viral vectors containing the human urokinase plasminogen activator gene and its utilization in the treatment of various types of hepatic renal, pulmonary, pancreatic and cardiac fibrosis and hypertrophic scars

Abstract From the Canadian patent

Hepatic cirrhosis is considered a severe health problem in Mexico, since it is the third mortality cause in working-age people and there is no 100% effective treatment. Cirrhosis is characterized by an exacerbated increase of collagen in liver parenchyma replacing the , hepatocytes and thus provoking liver failure. This is one of the reasons why we have used a gene therapy through specific delivery to cirrhotic livers of the gene of human urokinase plasminogen activator (huPA) which , activates mechanisms that induce the degradation of excess cellular matrix and stimulate hepatocyte proliferation, obtaining thus a fast re-establishment of the liver function. In the instant …