Gene Therapy for Hepatoma Cells Using a Retrovirus Vector Carrying Herpes Simplex Virus Thymidine Kinase Gene under the Control of Human α-Fetoprotein Gene Promoter

Cancer Research

Volumn 55, Issue 14, 1995, Pages 3105-3109

  Ido, Akio ^a   Nakata, Keisuke ^a   Kato, Yuji ^a   Nakao, Kazuhiko ^a   Murata, Ken ^a   Fujita, Masatoshi ^a   Ishii, Nobuko ^a   Tamaoki, Taiki ^b   Shiku, Hiroshi ^a   Nagataki, Shigenobu ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; ALPHA FETOPROTEIN; DEXAMETHASONE; GANCICLOVIR; THYMIDINE KINASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CANCER INHIBITION; CLONING VECTOR; DRUG SENSITIVITY; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE THERAPY; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS REGULATION; VIRUS GENE;

3T3 CELLS; ACYCLOVIR; ALPHA-FETOPROTEINS; ANIMAL; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CELL DIVISION; DEXAMETHASONE; DRUG INTERACTIONS; GANCICLOVIR; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE THERAPY; GENETIC VECTORS; HELA CELLS; HUMAN; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RETROVIRIDAE; SIMPLEXVIRUS; THYMIDINE KINASE; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0029018605     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: 15387445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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