Incorporation of β-globin untranslated regions into a Sindbis virus vector for augmentation of heterologous mRNA expression

Gene Therapy

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 624-627

  Strong, T V ^a,b   Hampton, T A ^a   Louro, I ^a   Bilbao, G ^a   Conry, R M ^a,b   Curiel, D T ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

Gene therapy; Polynucleotide immunization; Replicative RNA; Transgene; Tumor antigen; Untranslated regions

Indexed keywords

BETA GLOBIN; MESSENGER RNA; POLYNUCLEOTIDE; TUMOR ANTIGEN; TUMOR VACCINE; VIRUS VECTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CANCER IMMUNOTHERAPY; GENE THERAPY; GENE TRANSFER; IMMUNIZATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINDBIS VIRUS; TRANSGENE;

ANIMALIA; SINDBIS VIRUS;

EID: 0030836456     PISSN: 09697128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.gt.3300423     Document Type: Article

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