Abstract
The present paper describes changes following the subretinal injection of a recombinant replication-deficient adenovirus carrying the beta-galactosidase reporter gene construct into the rat retina. Ad.RSV.betagal-mediated transduction of rat retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) cells in vitro and in vivo was examined following X-gal staining. There was a low level of beta-galactosidase expression in the RPE cells at 4 days postinjection. At 7 days postinjection, a strong transgene expression was present in RPE cells and the expression was maintained at 14 days postinjection. Except for the accumulation of cells at the site of the injection, the morphology of the rest of the retina remained normal. These results demonstrate that the RPE layer can be successfully targeted for gene delivery in the rat.
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