Retroviral transfer of human cytochrome P450 genes for oxazaphosphorine- based cancer gene therapy

Cancer Research

Volumn 58, Issue 19, 1998, Pages 4391-4401

  Jounaidi, Youssef ^a   Hecht, Jodi E D ^a   Waxman, David J ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYTOCHROME P450; IFOSFAMIDE; OXAZAPHOSPHORINE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CANCER; CYTOTOXICITY; DRUG ACTIVATION; DRUG DISTRIBUTION; GENE THERAPY; GENE TRANSFER; GLIOSARCOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CLONE CELLS; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYTOCHROME P-450 CYP2B1; CYTOCHROME P-450 ENZYME SYSTEM; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; GENETIC VECTORS; GLIOSARCOMA; HUMANS; IFOSFAMIDE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED ICR; MICE, SCID; RETROVIRIDAE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0032190113     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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