Molecular chemotherapy combined with radiation therapy enhances killing of cholangiocarcinoma cells in vitro and in vivo

Cancer Research

Volumn 57, Issue 19, 1997, Pages 4325-4332

  Pederson, Lee C ^a,b   Buchsbaum, Donald J ^b   Vickers, Selwyn M ^a   Kancharla, Sreekanth R ^b   Mayo, Matthew S ^c   Curiel, David T ^c   Stackhouse, Murray A ^b  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b The University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOSINE DEAMINASE; FLUCYTOSINE; RADIOSENSITIZING AGENT; VIRUS VECTOR;

ADENOVIRUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BEAM THERAPY; BILE DUCT CARCINOMA; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER INHIBITION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER THERAPY; CLONOGENIC ASSAY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE THERAPY; HELA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUDE MOUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; TUMOR VOLUME; VIRUS RECOMBINANT;

ADENOVIRIDAE; ANIMALS; ANTIMETABOLITES, ANTINEOPLASTIC; BILE DUCT NEOPLASMS; BILE DUCTS, INTRAHEPATIC; CHOLANGIOCARCINOMA; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; CYTOSINE DEAMINASE; FLUOROURACIL; GAMMA RAYS; GENE THERAPY; GENETIC VECTORS; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, NUDE; NUCLEOSIDE DEAMINASES; PRODRUGS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RADIATION-SENSITIZING AGENTS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; TRANSFECTION; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS;

EID: 0030817590     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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