Tissue-specific expression of a suicide gene for selective killing of neuroblastoma cells using a promoter region of the NCX gene

Cancer Gene Therapy

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2001, Pages 997-1002

  Narita, Mitsuro ^a,b   Bahar, Rumana ^a   Hatano, Masahiko ^b   Kang, Myeng Mo ^b   Tokuhisa, Takeshi ^b   Goto, Shigemasa ^b   Saisho, Hiromitsu ^b   Sakiyama, Shigeru ^a   Tagawa, Masatoshi ^a  

^a CHIBA CANCER CENTER   (Japan)

^b CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gene therapy; HSV TK; NCX; Neural crest; Neuroblastoma

Indexed keywords

GANCICLOVIR; LUCIFERASE; THYMIDINE KINASE; VIRUS T ANTIGEN;

ARTICLE; CELL KILLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG SENSITIVITY; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE THERAPY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NCX GENE; NEUROBLASTOMA CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REGULATOR GENE; REPORTER GENE; SIMIAN VIRUS 40; START CODON; SUICIDE GENE; TISSUE SPECIFICITY;

CELL DEATH; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; GENE THERAPY; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; MELANOMA; NEUROBLASTOMA; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

HERPES; MURINAE; SIMIAE; SIMIAN VIRUS; SIMIAN VIRUS 40; SIMPLEXVIRUS;

EID: 0035206956     PISSN: 09291903     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.cgt.7700408     Document Type: Article

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