Hepatocellular Carcinoma

CD40L Gene Therapy Eradicated Tumors In Rats

Published in Hepatitis Weekly, September 3rd, 2001

by Deborah W. Heinrich, PhD, staff medical writer - CD40L gene therapy stimulated antitumor immunity followed by complete tumor regression in rats with established hepatocellular carcinomas, according to scientists in Spain.

V. Schmitz and coworkers at the University of Navarra in Pamplona explained that "unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) lacks effective therapy and entails very poor prognosis." In an attempt to improve the prognosis, they developed a method to enhance antitumor immunity by overexpressing the T cell costimulatory molecule CD40 ligand (CD40L).

In vitro, adenovirus-mediated transfection of rat HCC cells resulted in...

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