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Therapy of experimental human brain tumors using a neuroattenuated herpes simplex virus mutant.
Laboratory investigation; a journal of technical methods and pathology - 1 Nov 1995
Kesari S, Randazzo B P, Valyi-Nagy T, Huang Q S, Brown S M, MacLean A R, Lee V M, Trojanowski J Q, Fraser N W
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BACKGROUND: Engineered herpes simplex virus (HSV) strains previously have been shown to offer a potential therapeutic alternative to conventional treatment modalities for brain tumors. Because HSV Type 1 strain 1716 has a deletion in the gamma 34.5 neurovirulence gene that renders it avirulent in the mouse central nervous system, we have assessed its potential to induce selective lysis of tumor cells versus...
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