Gene therapy for malignant gliomas using replication incompetent retroviral and adenoviral vectors encoding the cytochrome P450 2B1 gene together with cyclophosphamide

Gene Therapy

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 513-520

  Manome, Y ^a   Wen, P Y ^b   Chen, L ^a   Tanaka, T ^a   Dong, Y ^a   Yamazoe, M ^a   Hirshowitz, A ^a   Kufe, D W ^a   Fine, H A ^a,c  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adenoviral vectors; Cyclophosphamide; Cytochrome p450; Gene therapy; Gliomas; Retroviral

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYTOCHROME P450;

ADENOVIRUS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; CAROTID ARTERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA CROSS LINKING; EXPRESSION VECTOR; GENE THERAPY; GLIOBLASTOMA; GLIOMA CELL; INTRAARTERIAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; INTRATUMORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROVIRUS; VIRUS REPLICATION;

ADENOVIRIDAE; ANIMALS; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CELL DIVISION; CELL LINE; CELL SURVIVAL; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYTOCHROME P-450 CYP2B1; FEMALE; GENE THERAPY; GENETIC VECTORS; GLIOSARCOMA; HUMANS; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; RETROVIRIDAE; TRANSFECTION; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0029993999     PISSN: 09697128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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