Oncolytic virotherapy as emerging immunotherapeutic modality: Potential of parvovirus h-1

Frontiers in Oncology

Volumn 4 MAY, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Moehler, Markus ^a   Goepfert, Katrin ^a   Heinrich, Bernd ^a   Breitbach, Caroline J ^b   Delic, Maike ^a   Galle, Peter Robert ^a   Rommelaere, Jean ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER MAINZ   (Germany)

^b Jennerex Biotherapeutics Inc   (United States)

^c GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Autonomous parvovirus; Ctla 4; Dendritic cells; H 1pv; Immunotherapy; Jx 594; T vec; Talimogene laherparepvec

Indexed keywords

ONCOLYTIC PARVOVIRUS; ONCOLYTIC PARVOVIRUS H 1; TICILIMUMAB; TUMOR ANTIGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CANCER IMMUNOTHERAPY; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL KILLING; CELL LYSATE; CELL MATURATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE RELEASE; CYTOTOXIC LYMPHOCYTE; DENDRITIC CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOSTIMULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; ONCOLYTIC VIROTHERAPY; PHAGOCYTOSIS; REVIEW; TUMOR IMMUNITY;

EID: 84904691542     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2234943X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fonc.2014.00092     Document Type: Review

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