Cancer Gene Therapy
Data on cancer gene therapy published by researchers at University of Munich
Published in Cancer Weekly, April 29th, 2008
"Due to limited treatment options the prognosis of patients with advanced hepatocellular cancer (HCC) has remained poor. To investigate an alternative therapeutic approach, we examined the feasibility of radioiodine therapy of HCC following human sodium iodide symporter (NIS) gene transfer using a mouse alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) promoter construct to target NIS expression to HCC cells," scientists writing in the journal Gene Therapy report.
"For this purpose, the murine Hepa 1-6 and the human HepG2 hepatoma cell lines were stably transfected with NIS cDNA under the control of the tumor-specific AFP promoter. The stably transfected Hepa 1-6 cell line showed a...
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Source: Cancer Weekly (2008-04-29)
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