Suicide gene therapy of ovarian cancer: An experimental study in rats using retroviral-mediated transfer of herpes simplex virus thymidine kinase gene

Anticancer Research

Volumn 20, Issue 6 B, 2000, Pages 4633-4638

  Nagy, H J ^a   Panis, Y ^a   Fabre, M ^a   Klatzmann, D ^a   Houssin, D ^a   Soubrane, O ^a  

^a HÔPITAL LARIBOISIÈRE   (France)

Author keywords

Ganciclovir; Gene therapy; Ovarian cancer; Retrovirus; Thymidine kinase

Indexed keywords

GANCICLOVIR; THYMIDINE KINASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG SENSITIVITY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; FEMALE; GENE TARGETING; GENE THERAPY; GENE TRANSFER; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 1; NONHUMAN; OVARY ADENOCARCINOMA; OVARY CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RETROVIRUS; SUICIDE GENE; TUMOR REGRESSION; TUMOR VOLUME;

3T3 CELLS; ANIMALS; ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; FEMALE; GANCICLOVIR; GENE THERAPY; GENES, VIRAL; GENETIC VECTORS; HERPESVIRUS 1, HUMAN; HUMANS; IMMUNE TOLERANCE; MICE; MODELS, ANIMAL; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; THYMIDINE KINASE;

EID: 0034483380     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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