Eradication of Myc-overexpressing small cell lung cancer cells transfected with herpes simplex virus thymidine kinase gene containing Myc-Max response elements

Cancer Research

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 354-358

  Kumagai, Toru ^a   Tanio, Yoshiro ^a   Osaki, Tadashi ^a   Hosoe, Shigeto ^a   Tachibana, Isao ^a   Ueno, Kiyonobu ^a   Kijima, Takashi ^a   Horai, Takeshi ^b   Kishimoto, Tadamitsu ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b CENTER FOR ADULT DISEASES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

THYMIDINE KINASE;

ARTICLE; DNA REPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE THERAPY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LUNG SMALL CELL CANCER; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ONCOGENE C MYC; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

ANTIMETABOLITES, ANTINEOPLASTIC; BASE SEQUENCE; CARCINOMA, SMALL CELL; CELL DIVISION; GANCICLOVIR; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE THERAPY; GENES, MYC; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SIMPLEXVIRUS; THYMIDINE KINASE; TRANSFECTION; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0030057745     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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