Cystic fibrosis can be cured by:
Correct answer: B. Liposomes vehicles
- A. Episomes vehicles
- B. Liposomes vehicles
- C. Eposomes vehicles
- D. Disomic vehicles
Explanation
Cystic fibrosis patients lack a gene that codes for trans-membrane carrier of the chloride ion. Patients often die due to numerous infections of the respiratory tract. And in vivo method of treatment is being tried. Liposomes-microscopic vesicles that spontaneously form when lipoproteins are put into a solution, have been coated with the gene needed to cure cystic fibrosis. Then the solution is sprayed into patient's nostrils. Due to limited gene transfer, this methodology has not as yet been successful.
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