Gene transfer into brain parenchyma elicits antitumor effects

Cancer Research

Volumn 60, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 1797-1799

  Fathallah Shaykh, Hassan M ^a,b   Kafrouni, Abdallah I ^a   Zhao, Li Juan ^a   Smith, George M ^a,c   Forman, James ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; VIRUS VECTOR;

ADENOVIRUS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BRAIN CANCER; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; GENE TARGETING; GENE TRANSFER; IN VIVO STUDY; LEWIS CARCINOMA; MICROGLIA; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PARENCHYMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADENOVIRIDAE; ANIMALS; BRAIN; GENE THERAPY; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; GENETIC VECTORS; INTERFERON TYPE II; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEURONS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS;

EID: 0034037690     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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