Novel, chimeric, cancer-specific, and radiation-inducible gene promoters for suicide gene therapy of cancer

Cancer

Volumn 118, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 536-548

  Xiong, Jie ^a   Sun, Wen Jie ^a   Wang, Wei Feng ^a   Liao, Zheng Kai ^a   Zhou, Fu Xiang ^a   Kong, Hai Yan ^a   Xu, Yu ^a   Xie, Cong Hua ^a   Zhou, Yun Feng ^a  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

CArG elements; Gene therapy; Horseradish peroxidase; Human telomerase reverse transcriptase gene promoter; Radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

ADENOVIRUS VECTOR; HORSERADISH PEROXIDASE; INDOLEACETIC ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL; CANCER GENE THERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TELOMERASE REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE GENE; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SUICIDE GENE THERAPY; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; TUMOR REGRESSION; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADENOVIRIDAE; ANIMALS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; DNA, RECOMBINANT; GENE THERAPY; GENETIC VECTORS; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; NEOPLASMS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; SERUM RESPONSE ELEMENT; TELOMERASE; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS;

EID: 84855482503     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.26289     Document Type: Article

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