Cancer Gene Therapy
New cancer gene therapy research from A. Azatian and colleagues discussed
Published in Medical Devices and Surgical Technology Week, June 28th, 2009
According to recent research published in the Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery, "The thymidine kinase gene of the herpes simplex virus (HSV-tk) is a suicide gene when administrated with the prodrug ganciclovir (GCV). This study investigated the effectiveness of HSV-tk activation as gene therapy for gastroesophageal junction and gastric adenocarcinomas using either the stress-inducible Grp78 promoter or the murine leukemia virus long-terminal repeat (LTR) promoter."
"The HSV-tk gene, controlled by either the Grp78 promoter or the LTR promoter, was transduced into the gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma cell line SK-GT-5 and the gastric adenocarcinoma cell...
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