Adenovirus-mediated transduction of Escherichia coli uracil phosphoribosyltransferase gene sensitizes cancer cells to low concentrations of 5-fluorouracil

Cancer Research

Volumn 58, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 1946-1951

  Kanai, Fumihiko ^a,b   Kawakami, Takayuki ^a   Hamada, Hirofumi ^b   Sadata, Akiko ^b   Yoshida, Yoko ^b   Tanaka, Torao ^a   Ohashi, Makoto ^a   Tateishi, Keisuke ^a   Shiratori, Yasushi ^a   Omata, Masao ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b CANCER INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUOROURACIL; URACIL PHOSPHORIBOSYLTRANSFERASE; URIDINE PHOSPHATE;

ADENOVIRUS; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; COLON CANCER; DRUG CYTOTOXICITY; DRUG SENSITIVITY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE THERAPY; GENETIC TRANSDUCTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LIVER CANCER; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PANCREAS CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLID TUMOR; TUMOR XENOGRAFT;

ADENOVIRIDAE; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CELLS, CULTURED; DNA PRIMERS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUOROURACIL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE THERAPY; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, NUDE; NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; PENTOSYLTRANSFERASES; TRANSFECTION; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0032080867     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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