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Vesicular stomatitis virus: an exciting new therapeutic oncolytic virus candidate for cancer or just another chapter from Field's Virology?
Cancer cell - 1 Oct 2003
Giedlin Martin A, Cook David N, Dubensky Thomas W
Abstract excerpt
Selected mutant strains of vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) are described that are unable to combat endogenous IFN-beta signaling within infected normal cells and as a result are dramatically more selective for productive growth in tumor cells having a defective antiviral response. The VSV mutants may have the potential to be used clinically as a systemic oncolytic agent for the treatment of distal and metastatic...
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