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Lentiviral HSV-Tk.007-mediated suicide gene therapy is not toxic for normal brain cells.
The journal of gene medicine - 1 Sept 2016
Hossain Jubayer A, Ystaas Lars Rømo, Mrdalj Jelena, Välk Kristjan, Riecken Kristoffer, Fehse Boris, Bjerkvig Rolf, Grønli Janne, Miletic Hrvoje
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Gene therapeutic strategies with suicide genes are currently investigated in clinical trials for brain tumors. Previously, we have shown that lentiviral vectors delivering the suicide gene HSV-Tk to experimental brain tumors promote a highly significant treatment effect and thus are promising vectors for clinical translation. METHODS: In the present study, we tested lentiviral vectors delivering the...
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