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Active immunotherapy: oncolytic virus therapy using HSV-1.
Advances in experimental medicine and biology - 1 Jan 2012
Todo Tomoki
Abstract excerpt
Conditionally replicating herpes simplex viruses Type 1 (HSV-1) are promising therapeutic agents for glioma. They can replicate in situ, spread and exhibit oncolytic activity via a direct cytocidal effect. In addition, specific antitumor immunity is effectively induced in the course of oncolytic activities. G47Δ is a genetically engineered HSV-1 with triple mutations that realized augmented viral replication in...
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