Radiosensitizing effect of intratumoral interleukin-12 gene electrotransfer in murine sarcoma

BMC Cancer

Volumn 13, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Sedlar, Ales ^a   Kranjc, Simona ^a   Dolinsek, Tanja ^a   Cemazar, Maja ^a,b   Coer, Andrej ^b   Sersa, Gregor ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRIMORSKA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Gene electrotransfer; IL 12; Irradiation; Mice; Sarcoma

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 12; PLASMID DNA; RED FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; ELECTROPORATION; FEMALE; FIBROSARCOMA; MALE; MOUSE; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION FIELD; RADIOSENSITIZATION; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SKIN MANIFESTATION; SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA; STIMULATION; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; ELECTROPORATION; FEMALE; FIBROSARCOMA; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; GENETIC THERAPY; INTERFERON-GAMMA; INTERLEUKIN-12; MALE; MICE; TIME FACTORS; TUMOR BURDEN;

EID: 84872939290     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712407     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2407-13-38     Document Type: Article

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