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Cancer Gene Therapy
Researchers at Peking University, Center for Human Disease Genomics release new data on cancer gene therapy
March 11th, 2008
New research, 'Adenovirus-expressed human hyperplasia suppressor gene induces apoptosis in cancer cells,' is the subject of a report. "Hyperplasia suppressor gene (HSG), also called human mitofusin 2, is a novel gene that markedly suppresses the cell proliferation of hyperproliferative vascular smooth muscle cells from spontaneously hypertensive rat arteries. This gene encodes a mitochondrial membrane protein that participates in mitochondrial fusion and contributes to the maintenance and operation of the mitochondrial network," scientists writing in the journal Molecular Cancer Therapeutics report. "In this report, we showed that an adenovirus vector encoding...
Source: Cancer Weekly (2008-03-11)
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