Cancer Gene Therapy
Targeted HSV Vector Delivers Punch to Hepatoma Tumors
Published in Gene Therapy Weekly, May 17th, 1999
S.I. Miyatake and colleagues from the Kyoto University Hospital, Japan and Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC, analyzed a hepatoma-specific viral vector incorporating the herpes simplex virus (HSV) both in vitro and in vivo ("Hepatoma-Specific Antitumor Activity of an Albumin Enhancer/Promoter Regulated Herpes Simplex Virus In Vivo," Gene Therapy, April 1999;6(4):564-72).
"We describe an alternative approach to virus-mediated gene therapy, where HSV replication and associated cytotoxicity are limited to a specific cell-type by the regulated expression of...
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Source: Gene Therapy Weekly (1999-05-17)
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