Gene therapy of experimental malignant mesothelioma using adenovirus vectors encoding the HSVtk gene

Gene Therapy

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 280-287

  Esandi, M C ^a   Van Someren, G D ^a   Vincent, A J P E ^b   Van Bekkum, D W ^c   Valerio, D ^a,c   Bout, A ^a,c   Noteboom, J L ^a,d  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c CRUCELL HOLLAND BV   (Netherlands)

^d LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

HSV thymidine kinase gene; Malignant mesothelioma; Promoter activity comparison; Recombinant adenovirus; Suicide gene therapy

Indexed keywords

GANCICLOVIR; LUCIFERASE; THYMIDINE KINASE;

ADENOVIRUS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CANCER INHIBITION; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPRESSION VECTOR; GENE THERAPY; GENETIC TRANSDUCTION; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; MALE; MALIGNANT MESOTHELIOMA; NONHUMAN; PLEURA CAVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RAT; RECOMBINANT GENE; REPORTER GENE; SUICIDE GENE; VIRUS RECOMBINANT; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 0030936116     PISSN: 09697128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.gt.3300385     Document Type: Article

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