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Complement depletion facilitates the infection of multiple brain tumors by an intravascular, replication-conditional herpes simplex virus mutant.
Journal of virology - 1 May 2000
Ikeda K, Wakimoto H, Ichikawa T, Jhung S, Hochberg F H, Louis D N, Chiocca E A
Abstract excerpt
Intravascular routes of administration can provide a means to target gene- and virus-based therapies to multiple tumor foci located within an organ, such as the brain. However, we demonstrate here that rodent plasma inhibits cell transduction by replication-conditional (oncolytic) herpes simplex viruses (HSV), replication-defective HSV, and adenovirus vectors. In vitro depletion of complement with mild heat...
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