Enhanced efficacy of transcriptionally targeted suicide gene/prodrug therapy for thyroid carcinoma with the Cre-loxP system

Cancer Research

Volumn 59, Issue 13, 1999, Pages 3049-3052

  Nagayama, Yuji ^a   Nishihara, Eijun ^a   Iitaka, Makoto ^b   Namba, Hiroyuki ^a   Yamashita, Shunichi ^a   Niwa, Masami ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b SAITAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GANCICLOVIR; PRODRUG; THYROGLOBULIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CANCER INHIBITION; CYTOTOXICITY; DRUG TARGETING; GENE EXPRESSION SYSTEM; GENE TARGETING; GENE THERAPY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUDE MOUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SUICIDE GENE; THYROID CARCINOMA; TISSUE SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CELL LINE, TRANSFORMED; GANCICLOVIR; GENE TARGETING; GENE THERAPY; GENES, REPORTER; GENETIC VECTORS; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, NUDE; PRODRUGS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RATS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RETROVIRIDAE; SIMPLEXVIRUS; THYMIDINE KINASE; THYROGLOBULIN; THYROID GLAND; THYROID NEOPLASMS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 0033168967     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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