In Situ Retroviral-mediated Gene Transfer for the Treatment of Brain Tumors in Rats

Cancer Research

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 1993, Pages 83-88

  Ram, Zvi ^a   Culver, Kenneth W ^b   Walbridge, Stuart ^a   Michael Blaese, R ^b   Oldfield, Edward H ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; GANCICLOVIR; THYMIDINE KINASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN TUMOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; FIBROBLAST; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC TRANSDUCTION; GLIOSARCOMA; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TUMOR CELL DESTRUCTION; TUMOR REGRESSION;

3T3 CELLS; ANIMAL; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG SCREENING ASSAYS, ANTITUMOR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GANCICLOVIR; GENE THERAPY; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, VIRAL; GLIOMA; HUMAN; LAC OPERON; MICE; NEOPLASM TRANSPLANTATION; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; RETROVIRIDAE; SIMPLEXVIRUS; THYMIDINE KINASE; TRANSDUCTION, GENETIC; TRANSFECTION; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0027531548     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: 15387445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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