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Inhibition of malignant glioma cell growth by a survivin mutant retrovirus.
Human gene therapy - 1 Feb 2005
Temme A, Herzig E, Weigle B, Morgenroth A, Schmitz M, Kiessling A, Rieger M A, Schackert H K, Rieber E P
Abstract excerpt
Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is a highly malignant brain tumor that is resistant to conventional radiotherapy and chemotherapy. The median survival time of patients with GBM has remained less than 2 years despite concerted efforts to improve therapy. As a new approach to treat GBM we generated retroviral particles encoding mutant survivin for transduction of glioma cells. We demonstrate here that retroviral...
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