In vivo demethylation of a MoMuLV retroviral vector expressing the herpes simplex thymidine kinase suicide gene by 5' azacytidine

Stem Cells

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 415-421

  Di Ianni, Mauro ^a   Terenzi, Adelmo ^a   Di Florio, Sabrina ^a   Venditti, Gigliola ^a   Benedetti, Roberta ^a   Santucci, Antonella ^a   Bartoli, Andrea ^a   Fettucciari, Katia ^a   Marconi, Pierfrancesco ^a   Rossi, Ruggero ^a   Martelli, Massimo F ^a   Tabilio, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

5'Azacytidine; lacZ; Retroviral vector; SCID mice

Indexed keywords

AZACITIDINE; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; DNA; GANCICLOVIR; THYMIDINE KINASE; VIRUS VECTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CISTRON; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMETHYLATION; DNA CONTENT; DNA METHYLATION; GENE SILENCING; GENE THERAPY; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 1; HISTIOCYTE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VIVO STUDY; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; MOLONEY LEUKEMIA ONCOVIRUS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; SCID MOUSE; SUICIDE GENE; TRANSGENE; TUMOR;

ANIMALIA; DNA VIRUSES; HERPES; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 1; MOLONEY MURINE LEUKEMIA VIRUS; ONCOVIRINAE;

EID: 0033756858     PISSN: 10665099     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1634/stemcells.18-6-415     Document Type: Article

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