Oncology
Reports add new data to oncology research
Published in Cancer Weekly, May 24th, 2005
Study 1: Survivin may be suited for tumor-specific gene promotion in melanoma.
"Gene therapy is a novel therapy for melanoma. To date, however, there is still no powerful tumor specific promoter (TSP) to restrict the transgene expression in melanoma cells. In order to define a useful TSP for targeting in the context of melanoma gene therapy, four promoters, the cyclooxygenase-2 (Cox-2), alpha-chemokine SDF-1 receptor (CXCR4), epithelial glycoprotein 2 (EGP-2), and survivin, were tested in both established melanoma cell lines and primary melanoma cells," investigators in the...
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