Gene therapy of experimental brain tumors using neural progenitor cells

Nature Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 447-450

  Benedetti, Sara ^a   Pirola, Barbara ^a   Pollo, Bianca ^a   Magrassi, Lorenzo ^b   Bruzzone, Maria Grazia ^a   Rigamonti, Dorotea ^c   Galli, Rossella ^a,d   Selleri, Silvia ^a   Di Meco, Francesco ^a   De Fraja, Claudio ^c   Vescovi, Angelo ^a,d   Cattaneo, Elena ^c   Finocchiaro, Gaetano ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF NEUROSURGERY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^d SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYTOKINE; INTERLEUKIN 4;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN TUMOR; CELL IMMORTALIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE THERAPY; GENE TRANSFER; GLIOBLASTOMA; GLIOMA; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STEM CELL;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; GENE THERAPY; GLIOBLASTOMA; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-4; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

ANIMALIA; UNIDENTIFIED RETROVIRUS;

EID: 0034117480     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/74710     Document Type: Article

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