Rat Adenocarcinoma Cell Line Infected With an Adenovirus Carrying a Novel Herpes-Simplex Virus-Thymidine Kinase Suicide Gene Construct Dies by Apoptosis Upon Treatment with Ganciclovir

Journal of Surgical Research

Volumn 143, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 189-194

  Chu, Quyen D ^a   Sun, Lisa ^a   Li, Jie ^a   Byrnes, Kerry ^a   Chervenak, Deborah ^a   DeBenedetti, Arrigo ^a   Mathis, J Michael ^a   Li, Benjamin D L ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

adenovirus; apoptosis; eIF4E; suicide gene therapy

Indexed keywords

DEOXYURIDINE TRIPHOSPHATE PYROPHOSPHATASE; GANCICLOVIR; THYMIDINE KINASE;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADENOVIRUS; ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BREAST ADENOCARCINOMA; CELL LINE; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; DRUG MECHANISM; GENE EXPRESSION; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SUICIDE GENE THERAPY; VIRUS INFECTION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ANIMALS; ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; APOPTOSIS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; EUKARYOTIC INITIATION FACTOR-4E; FLUORESCEIN-5-ISOTHIOCYANATE; FLUORESCENT DYES; GANCICLOVIR; GENE THERAPY; GENES, TRANSGENIC, SUICIDE; HERPES SIMPLEX; MAMMARY NEOPLASMS, ANIMAL; RATS; SIMPLEXVIRUS; THYMIDINE KINASE;

EID: 35248885278     PISSN: 00224804     EISSN: 10958673     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2006.12.007     Document Type: Article

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