Khaled METWALLY

Dr. Khaled METWALLY


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Academic Career Length

12Years (2015-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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12 August 2021 in Pharmaceutics
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MFMarie-Solenne Felix
Marie-Solenne Felix
EBEmilie Borloz
Emilie Borloz
KMKhaled METWALLY
Khaled METWALLY
ADAmbre Dauba
Ambre Dauba
BLBenoit Larrat
Benoit Larrat
JRJean Christophe Roux
Jean Christophe Roux
Gene therapy represents a powerful therapeutic tool to treat diseased tissues and provide a durable and effective correction. The central nervous system (CNS) is the target of many gene therapy protocols, but its high complexity makes it one of the most difficult organs to reach, in part due to the blood-brain barrier that protects it from external threats. Focused ultrasound (FUS) coupled with microbubbles appears as a technological breakthrough to deliver therapeutic agents into the CNS. While most studies focus on a specific targeted area of the brain, the present work proposes to permeabilize the entire brain for gene therapy in several pathologies. Our results show that, after i.v. administration and FUS sonication in a raster scan manner, a self-complementary AAV9-CMV-GFP vector strongly and safely infected the whole brain of mice. An increase in vector DNA (19.8 times), GFP mRNA (16.4 times), and GFP protein levels (17.4 times) was measured in whole brain extracts of FUS-treated GFP injected mice compared to non-FUS GFP injected mice. In addition to this increase in GFP levels, on average, a 7.3-fold increase of infected cells in the cortex, hippocampus, and striatum was observed. No side effects were detected in the brain of treated mice. The combining of FUS and AAV-based gene delivery represents a significant improvement in the treatment of neurological genetic diseases.

31 July 2015 in The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology
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KMKhaled METWALLY
Khaled METWALLY
Barriere ThierryBarriere Thierry
Barriere Thierry
CKC. Khan-Malek
C. Khan-Malek