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Treatment of experimental subcutaneous human melanoma with a replication-restricted herpes simplex virus mutant.
The Journal of investigative dermatology - 1 Jun 1997
Randazzo B P, Bhat M G, Kesari S, Fraser N W, Brown S M
Abstract excerpt
Modified, non-neurovirulent herpes simplex viruses (HSV) have shown promise for the treatment of brain tumors, including intracranial melanoma. In this report, we show that HSV-1716, an HSV-1 mutant lacking both copies of the gene coding-infected cell protein 34.5 (ICP 34.5), can effectively treat experimental subcutaneous human melanoma in mice. In vitro, HSV-1716 replicated in all 26 human melanoma cell lines...
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