Cloning and characterization of a retroviral plasmid, pCC1, for combination suicide gene therapy

BioTechniques

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 572-576

  Kuiper, Marcel ^a,b   Sanches, Raquel ^a   Gäken, Joop A ^c   Bignon, Yves Jean ^a  

^a CENTRE JEAN PERRIN   (France)

^b Ctr Medico Chirurgical Maternite T   (France)

^c KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GANCICLOVIR; THYMIDINE KINASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CLONING; CYTOTOXICITY; FUSION GENE; GENE THERAPY; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; MOLONEY LEUKEMIA ONCOVIRUS; NONHUMAN; OVARY CARCINOMA; RETROVIRUS; SUICIDE GENE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALIA; HERPES; MAMMALIA; MOLONEY MURINE LEUKEMIA VIRUS; MURINAE; ONCOVIRINAE; SIMIAE; SIMIAN VIRUS; SIMIAN VIRUS 40; SIMPLEXVIRUS; UNIDENTIFIED RETROVIRUS;

EID: 0034095252     PISSN: 07366205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2144/00283cr03     Document Type: Article

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