Colonisation of Clostridium in the body is restricted to hypoxic and necrotic areas of tumours

Anaerobe

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 183-188

  Lambin, Philippe ^a   Theys, J ^a,b   Landuyt, W ^a   Rijken, P ^c   Van Der Kogel, A ^c   Van Der Schueren, E ^a   Hodgkiss, R ^d   Fowler, J ^a   Nuyts, S ^a,b   De Bruijn, E ^a   Van Mellaert, L ^b   Anne J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b REGA INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Belgium)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d MOUNT VERNON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bacterial colonisation; Clostridium; Gene therapy; Hypoxia; Tumour

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL SPORE; CANCER GRAFT; CANCER THERAPY; CLONING VECTOR; CLOSTRIDIUM; GENE THERAPY; GENE TRANSFER; HYPOXIA; NECROSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPORE GERMINATION;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CLOSTRIDIUM; CLOSTRIDIUM ACETOBUTYLICUM;

EID: 0032144380     PISSN: 10759964     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anae.1998.0161     Document Type: Article

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