Nucleoside analog cytotoxicity and bystander cell killing of cancer cells expressing drosophila melanogaster deoxyribonucleoside kinase in the nucleus or cytosol

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 289, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 229-233

  Zheng, Xinyu ^a,b   Johansson, Magnus ^a   Karlsson, Anna ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Bystander effect; Gene therapy; Nucleoside analog; Nucleoside kinase; Nucleotide metabolism; Suicide gene

Indexed keywords

5 (2 BROMOVINYL) 2' DEOXYCYTIDINE; DEOXYRIBONUCLEOSIDE KINASE; NUCLEOSIDE DERIVATIVE; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; PYRIMIDINE NUCLEOSIDE DERIVATIVE; THYMIDINE KINASE; THYMINE ARABINOSIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CANCER CELL; CELL KILLING; CELL NUCLEUS; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSOL; CYTOTOXICITY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; OSTEOSARCOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROVIRUS; SUICIDE GENE; VIRUS RECOMBINANT;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0035940969     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/bbrc.2001.5953     Document Type: Article

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