Application of the Cre recombinase/loxP system further enhances antitumor effects in cell type-specific gene therapy against carcinoembryonic antigen-producing cancer

Cancer Research

Volumn 59, Issue 19, 1999, Pages 4906-4911

  Kijima, Takashi ^a   Osaki, Tadashi ^a   Nishino, Kazumi ^a   Kumagai, Toru ^a   Funakoshi, Toshiki ^a   Goto, Hiroyuki ^a   Tachibana, Isao ^a   Tanio, Yoshiro ^b   Kishimoto, Tadamitsu ^c  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b OSAKA GENERAL MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARCINOEMBRYONIC ANTIGEN; GANCICLOVIR; RECOMBINASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CANCER THERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE THERAPY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUDE MOUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADENOVIRIDAE; ANIMALS; ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; CARCINOEMBRYONIC ANTIGEN; CELL LINE; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; GANCICLOVIR; GENE THERAPY; GENETIC VECTORS; HUMANS; INTEGRASES; MALE; MICE; MICE, NUDE; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SIMPLEXVIRUS; THYMIDINE KINASE; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 0033214971     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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