Combination of stereotactic radiosurgery and cytokine gene-transduced tumor cell vaccination: A new strategy against metastatic brain tumors

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 95, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 984-989

  Nakahara, Norimoto ^b   Okada, Hideho ^b   Witham, Timothy F ^b   Attanucci, Jason ^b   Fellows, Wendy K ^b   Chambers, William H ^b   Niranjan, Ajay ^b   Kondziolka, Douglas ^b   Pollack, Ian F ^b  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Cytokine gene transduction; Immunotherapy; Metastasis; Radiosurgery tumor vaccine; Rat

Indexed keywords

GRANULOCYTE MACROPHAGE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; INTERLEUKIN 4; TUMOR VACCINE; VIRUS VECTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CANCER GRAFT; CANCER IMMUNOTHERAPY; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM TUMOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL NEOPLASM; GAMMA KNIFE RADIOSURGERY; GENETIC TRANSDUCTION; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RETROVIRUS; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0035199836     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/jns.2001.95.6.0984     Document Type: Article

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