Regression of large tumors expressing a suicide gene

Experimental and Toxicologic Pathology

Volumn 53, Issue 2-3, 2001, Pages 115-121

  Brand, K ^a   Bartels, T ^a   Arnold, W ^a   Strauss, M ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cancer; Cytolytic necrosis; Gene therapy; HSV tk GCV; Immune response

Indexed keywords

GANCICLOVIR DERIVATIVE; HSV TK GCV; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CELL DEGENERATION; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; COLON ADENOCARCINOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLYSIS; FIBROSIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE THERAPY; GENE TRANSFER; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LIVER TUMOR; NONHUMAN; PERITONEUM TUMOR; RAT; REMISSION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SUICIDE GENE; TUMOR REGRESSION; TUMOR VOLUME;

ANIMALIA; HERPES; SIMPLEXVIRUS;

EID: 0034931425     PISSN: 09402993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1078/0940-2993-00162     Document Type: Article

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