Bax gene therapy for human osteosarcoma using cationic liposomes in vivo

Oncology Reports

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 769-773

  Okumura, Kenya ^a   Nakase, Minoru ^b   Nakamura, Shinnosuke ^b   Kamei, Takahiko ^b   Inui, Madoka ^b   Tagawa, Toshiro ^b  

^a MIE NATIONAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b MIE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Bax; Cationic liposome; Gene therapy; Osteosarcoma

Indexed keywords

LIPOSOME; PROTEIN BAX;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BONE TUMOR; GENE THERAPY; GENETICS; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; OSTEOSARCOMA; TUMOR CELL LINE;

APOPTOSIS; BCL-2-ASSOCIATED X PROTEIN; BONE NEOPLASMS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; GENE THERAPY; HUMANS; LIPOSOMES; OSTEOSARCOMA;

EID: 34249935080     PISSN: 1021335X     EISSN: 17912431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3892/or.17.4.769     Document Type: Article

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