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Cancer Gene Therapy
Kyushu University details research in cancer gene therapy
June 9th, 2009
A report, 'Chemotherapeutic agents potentiate adenoviral gene therapy for pancreatic cancer,' is newly published data in Cancer Science. "Adenovirus-mediated gene therapy combined with chemotherapeutic agents is expected to represent a new approach for treating pancreatic cancer. However, there have been no reports of definitive effects of chemotherapeutic agents on adenovirus-mediated gene therapies," researchers in Fukuoka, Japan report. "In the present study, we investigated the effects of chemotherapeutic agents on the transduction efficiency of an adenovirus-based gene therapy. Adenovirus (Ad-NK4) expressing NK4, which acts as a hepatocyte growth factor...
Source: Cancer Weekly (2009-06-09)
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