Transduction of cytosine deaminase gene makes rat glioma cells highly sensitive to 5-fluorocytosine

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 675-679

  Ge, Kai ^a   Xu, Lingfei ^a   Zheng, Zhongcheng ^a   Xu, Dehua ^a   Sun, Lanyin ^a   Liu, Xinyuan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND CELL BIOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOSINE DEAMINASE; FLUCYTOSINE; FLUOROURACIL;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG SENSITIVITY; GENETIC TRANSDUCTION; GLIOMA CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; ANTIMETABOLITES, ANTINEOPLASTIC; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CYTOSINE DEAMINASE; DRUG RESISTANCE, NEOPLASM; FLUCYTOSINE; GENE THERAPY; GENETIC VECTORS; GLIOMA; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, NUDE; NEOPLASM TRANSPLANTATION; NUCLEOSIDE DEAMINASES; RATS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; TRANSFECTION; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0031011611     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0215(19970516)71:4<675::AID-IJC26>3.0.CO;2-9     Document Type: Article

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