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Evaluation of the antitumor effects of Herpes simplex virus lacking ribonucleotide reductase in a murine retinoblastoma model.
Current eye research - 1 Jan 2000
Cullinan Amy E, Lindstrom Mary J, Sabet Sina, Albert Daniel M, Brandt Curtis R
Abstract excerpt
PURPOSE: To determine if an attenuated herpes simplex virus (HSV) lacking the large subunit of ribonucleotide reductase has antitumor effects in a transgenic mouse model of retinoblastoma (LHbetaTAg). METHODS: LHbetaTAg mice were injected ocularly with 1 x 10(6) pfu of the hrR3 virus and tumor sizes were measured 3 weeks later. Replication of the virus in the eye and cultured murine retinoblastoma cells was...
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