Article
Reduction and elimination of encephalitis in an experimental glioma therapy model with attenuated herpes simplex mutants that retain susceptibility to acyclovir.
Neurosurgery - 1 Apr 1993
Markert J M, Malick A, Coen D M, Martuza R L
Abstract excerpt
Malignant gliomas are the most common malignant brain tumors and are almost universally fatal. A genetically engineered herpes simplex virus-1 mutant with decreased neurovirulence, dlsptk, has been shown to kill human glioma cells in culture and in animal models. However, intracranial inoculation of dlsptk is limited by fatal encephalitis at higher doses. Therefore, additional engineered and recombinant herpes...
Topics
- Acyclovir
- Animals
- Brain Neoplasms
- Encephalitis
- Female
- Glioma
- Herpes Simplex
- Humans
- Mice
- Mice, Nude
- Mutation
- Neoplasm Transplantation
