Article
Engineering regulatory elements for conditionally-replicative adeno-viruses.
Current gene therapy - 1 Aug 2003
Haviv Yosef S, Curiel David T
Abstract excerpt
Virus-mediated oncolysis is a rapidly growing field with the potential to dramatically alter the future of cancer therapy. Replication-selective viruses are superior to non-replicating vectors in several aspects, such as the amplification of the initial low-dose viral inoculum up to 10(3)-10(3)-fold, lateralization into neighboring cells, introduction of novel cell killing mechanisms, and a potential for a safe...
Topics
- Adenoviridae
- Adenovirus E1A Proteins
- Adenovirus E3 Proteins
- Animals
- Antineoplastic Agents
- DNA Replication
- Enhancer Elements, Genetic
- Gene Deletion
- Genetic Therapy
- Genetic Vectors
- Genome, Viral
