Effects of bicistronic lentiviral vector-mediated herpes simplex virus thymidine kinase/ganciclovir system on human lens epithelial cells

Current Eye Research

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 33-42

  Yang, Jin ^a   Liu, Tian Jin ^b   Lu, Yi ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND CELL BIOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Enhanced green fluorescent protein (EGFP); Ganciclovir (GCV); Herpes simplex virus thymidine kinase (HSV tk); Human lens epithelial cell (HLEC); Lentivirus; Suicide gene

Indexed keywords

GANCICLOVIR; LENTIVIRUS VECTOR; THYMIDINE KINASE;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CATARACT; CELL GROWTH; CELL KILLING; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CYTOTOXICITY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EPITHELIUM CELL; FLUORESCENCE ACTIVATED CELL SORTING; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GROWTH INHIBITION; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LENS CAPSULE; LENTIVIRINAE; NECROSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SUICIDE GENE THERAPY;

ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; BYSTANDER EFFECT; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL DEATH; DNA FRAGMENTATION; EPITHELIAL CELLS; GANCICLOVIR; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE THERAPY; GENES, TRANSGENIC, SUICIDE; GENETIC VECTORS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HERPESVIRUS 1, HUMAN; HUMANS; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; THYMIDINE KINASE;

EID: 33847048181     PISSN: 02713683     EISSN: 14602202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02713680601112793     Document Type: Article

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