Human growth hormone gene transfer into tumor cells may improve cancer chemotherapy.

abstract：:We introduced the interleukin-12 (IL-12) gene into mouse renal cell carcinoma (RenCa) cells to develop a tumor vaccine and to examine mechanisms of tumor rejection. IL-12-secreting RenCa (RenCa/IL-12) cells were completely rejected when implanted into syngeneic BALB/c but not athymic nude mice, suggesting that T cells...

journal_title：Cancer gene therapy

authors： Hara I,Nagai H,Miyake H,Yamanaka K,Hara S,Micallef MJ,Kurimoto M,Gohji K,Arakawa S,Ichihashi M,Kamidono S

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immune-isolation of nonautologous cells with microencapsulation protects these cells from graft rejection, thus allowing the same recombinant therapeutic cell line to be implanted in different recipients. This approach was successful in treating HER2/neu-expressing tumors in mice by delivering an interleukin-2 fusion ...

journal_title：Cancer gene therapy

authors： Cirone P,Shen F,Chang PL

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Colon carcinoma accounts for 20% of deaths due to malignancies in the Western world. Once metastases occur, therapeutic options are limited, with an approximate 5-year survival of only 5%. To investigate the potential of new gene therapeutic approaches, a hepatic micrometastasis model of colon carcinoma in BALB/c mice...

journal_title：Cancer gene therapy

authors： Block A,Freund CT,Chen SH,Nguyen KP,Finegold M,Windler E,Woo SL

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have used the tetracycline (tet)-regulated system as described previously to evaluate the applicability of controlled gene expression in cancer gene therapy. As a model gene, we used the human interleukin-2 (IL-2) gene, which has been placed under the transcriptional control of the tetO/promoter. Human melanoma cel...

journal_title：Cancer gene therapy

authors： Pitzer C,Schindowski K,Pomer S,Wirth T,Zöller M

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ad-PPE-Fas-c is an adenovector that expresses Fas-c under the control of the modified pre-proendothelin-1 (PPE-1) promoter. Fas-c is a chimeric death receptor containing the extracellular portion of tumour necrosis factor 1 receptor (TNFR1) and the transmembrane and intracellular portion of Fas. We recently demonstrat...

journal_title：Cancer gene therapy

authors： Peled M,Shaish A,Greenberger S,Katav A,Hodish I,Ben-Shushan D,Barshack I,Mendel I,Frishman L,Tal R,Bangio L,Breitbart E,Harats D

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As of January 2005, there were 1020 gene therapy clinical trials ongoing worldwide with 675 or 66.2% devoted to cancer gene therapy. The majority are occurring in the US and Europe (http://www.wiley.co.uk/genetherapy/clinical/). At the present time, to our knowledge there are no trials that employ gene delivery of Fas...

journal_title：Cancer gene therapy

authors： Norris JS,Bielawska A,Day T,El-Zawahri A,ElOjeimy S,Hannun Y,Holman D,Hyer M,Landon C,Lowe S,Dong JY,McKillop J,Norris K,Obeid L,Rubinchik S,Tavassoli M,Tomlinson S,Voelkel-Johnson C,Liu X

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Retroviral replicating vectors (RRVs) have achieved efficient tumor transduction and enhanced therapeutic benefit in a wide variety of cancer models. Here, we evaluated two different RRVs derived from amphotropic murine leukemia virus (AMLV) and gibbon ape leukemia virus (GALV), which utilize different cellular recept...

journal_title：Cancer gene therapy

authors： Kubo S,Takagi-Kimura M,Kasahara N

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gliomas express a higher amount of Fas than normal brain tissue. It is of interest to know whether expression of the Fas receptor is unfavorable to the antiapoptotic pathways in gliomas. In this study, we introduced the Fas gene via an adenovirus vector (Adeno-Fas) into the A-172, U251, and U-373 MG glioma cell lines,...

journal_title：Cancer gene therapy

authors： Shinoura N,Ohashi M,Yoshida Y,Kirino T,Asai A,Hashimoto M,Hamada H

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) have affinity to tumor sites where they home, affecting their biology and growth. Previously, we have isolated mesenchymal cells from the decidua of the human placenta named as decidua-derived MSCs (DMSCs). The aims of the present study were to investigate the migration capacity of DMSCs ...

journal_title：Cancer gene therapy

authors： Vegh I,Grau M,Gracia M,Grande J,de la Torre P,Flores AI

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aims to investigate the effect and mechanism of Vav3 on the multidrug resistance of gastric cancer. Fluorescence quantitative RT-PCR and western blot assay were used to detect Vav3 and drug resistance genes in gastric cancer tissues as well as gastric cell lines such as SGC7901, SGC7901/adriamycin (ADR) and...

journal_title：Cancer gene therapy

authors： Tan B,Li Y,Zhao Q,Fan L,Liu Y,Wang D,Zhao X

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glioblastoma (GBM) is by far the most common and the most aggressive of all the primary brain malignancies. No curative therapy exists, and median life expectancy hovers at around 1 year after diagnosis, with a minute fraction surviving beyond 5 years. The difficulty in treating GBM lies in the cancer's protected nich...

journal_title：Cancer gene therapy

authors： Sengupta S,Mao G,Gokaslan ZS,Sampath P

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The majority of human neuroblastomas express low to undetectable levels of major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I and II antigens (MHC-I and -II). We studied the effects of gamma interferon (gamma-IFN) transduction on expression of these antigens in six human neuroblastoma cell lines with and without genomic a...

journal_title：Cancer gene therapy

authors： Uçar K,Seeger RC,Challita PM,Watanabe CT,Yen TL,Morgan JP,Amado R,Chou E,McCallister T,Barber JR

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Malignant tumors express tumor-related antigens, but effective antitumor immunity does not occur in the primary host. One hypothesis is that there is insufficient stimulation of T-cell responses due to ineffective antigen presentation. An approach to overcome these deficiencies is to modify tumor cells to express majo...

journal_title：Cancer gene therapy

authors： Hock RA,Reynolds BD,Tucker-McClung CL,Heuer JG

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The herpes simplex virus thymidine kinase (HSV-TK) gene is being developed in the treatment of many different types of tumors. The HSV-TK gene sensitizes tumor cells to the antiviral drug ganciclovir (GCV) and mediates the bystander effect in which unmodified tumor cells are killed as well. Although this approach has ...

journal_title：Cancer gene therapy

authors： Whartenby KA,Darnowski JW,Freeman SM,Yurasha K,Calabresi P

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Specificity is a prerequisite for systemic gene therapy of hepatocarcinoma. In vitro, the tumor-specific viral death effector Apoptin selectively induces apoptosis in malignant hepatic cells. Intratumoral treatment of xenografted subcutaneous hepatomas with Apoptin results in tumor regression. Here, we report a system...

journal_title：Cancer gene therapy

authors： Peng DJ,Sun J,Wang YZ,Tian J,Zhang YH,Noteborn MH,Qu S

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Angiogenesis is among the most important mechanisms that helps cancer cells to survive, grow and undergo metastasis. Therefore, inhibiting angiogenesis will suppress tumor growth. Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and its receptor (VEGFR) are believed to be important players of angiogenesis. The goal of this s...

journal_title：Cancer gene therapy

authors： Alirahimi E,Ashkiyan A,Kazemi-Lomedasht F,Azadmanesh K,Hosseininejad-Chafi M,Habibi-Anbouhi M,Moazami R,Behdani M

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lung cancer is the most frequently occurring cancer in the world and causes more deaths in the United States than does colon, breast, and prostate cancer combined. Despite advances in treatment modalities including radiation, surgery, and chemotherapy, the overall survival in lung cancer remains low. The cytokine tumo...

journal_title：Cancer gene therapy

authors： Sanlioglu S,Luleci G,Thomas KW

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-beta) is a potent immunosuppressive cytokine produced by many tumor cells. Secretion of TGF-beta by malignant cells may therefore be a mechanism by which tumor cells escape destruction by tumor-specific T lymphocytes. In order to evaluate the role of tumor-derived TGF-beta on tumor...

journal_title：Cancer gene therapy

authors： Park JA,Wang E,Kurt RA,Schluter SF,Hersh EM,Akporiaye ET

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA interference is an endogenous gene-silencing mechanism that involves double-stranded RNA-mediated sequence-specific mRNA degradation. The discovery of this pathway together with the elucidation of the structure and function of short interfering RNAs--the effector molecules of RNA interference--has had an enormous ...

journal_title：Cancer gene therapy

authors： Karagiannis TC,El-Osta A

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Histological grading (HG) is an important prognostic factor of colorectal adenocarcinoma (CRAC): the high-grade CRAC patients have poorer prognosis after tumor resection. Especially, the high-grade stage II CRAC patients are recommended to receive adjuvant chemotherapy. Due to the subjective nature of HG assessment, i...

journal_title：Cancer gene therapy

authors： Zheng H,Song K,Fu Y,You T,Yang J,Guo W,Wang K,Jin L,Gu Y,Qi L,Zhao W,Guo Z

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:At the Eleventh International Conference on Gene Therapy of Cancer (December 12-14, 2002, San Diego, CA) progress on using gene transfer technology to treat cancer was presented. Although there is as yet no cancer gene therapy being marketed, considerable progress has been made in defining likely strategies and likely...

journal_title：Cancer gene therapy

authors： Gottesman MM

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fusion of the 5' half of the Ewing's sarcoma (ES) gene EWS with the DNA-binding domain of several transcription factors has been detected in many human tumors. The t(11;22)(q24;q12) chromosomal translocation is specifically linked to ES and primitive neuroectodermal tumors and results, in the majority of cases, in the...

journal_title：Cancer gene therapy

authors： Athanasiou M,LeGallic L,Watson DK,Blair DG,Mavrothalassitis G

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the present study is to identify the optimal anticancer agents for use in combination with gene therapy using wild-type (wt) p53 gene transfer. We used adenoviral vectors expressing human wt p53 (AdCAp53) and investigated the effects of wt p53 gene transfer in combination with 12 anticancer agents on a huma...

journal_title：Cancer gene therapy

authors： Osaki S,Nakanishi Y,Takayama K,Pei XH,Ueno H,Hara N

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Macrophages plasticity is a key feature in cancer progression. Neoplastic cells can alter their immune functions and orient them into a pro-tumoral phenotype. In this context, we developed a new therapeutic strategy to switch macrophages phenotype and reactivate their anti-tumoral functions. We showed a dual activity ...

journal_title：Cancer gene therapy

authors： Rose M,Duhamel M,Aboulouard S,Kobeissy F,Tierny D,Fournier I,Rodet F,Salzet M

更新日期：2021-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:CD70 (CD27 ligand (CD27L)), CD153 (CD30L), and CD154 (CD40L) are members of the tumor necrosis factor family of costimulatory molecules and expressed on the surface of T cells that are important for both T- and B-cell help. We examined the capacity for expression of these tumor necrosis factor family members on tumor ...

journal_title：Cancer gene therapy

authors： Couderc B,Zitvogel L,Douin-Echinard V,Djennane L,Tahara H,Favre G,Lotze MT,Robbins PD

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arming oncolytic adenoviral vectors with anticancer transgenes that can be expressed in a tumor-selective manner may enable the engineering of vectors with increased potency, while retaining their safety profile. Armed oncolytic adenoviral vectors were constructed in which transgene expression has been linked via modi...

journal_title：Cancer gene therapy

authors： Robinson M,Ge Y,Ko D,Yendluri S,Laflamme G,Hawkins L,Jooss K

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of genetically modified tumor cells as vaccines has been successful in numerous animal models of grafted syngenic tumors and has provided the groundwork for many clinical trials of gene therapy in cancer patients. To investigate the real efficacy of ex vivo gene therapy-based vaccines, we used transgenic mice ...

journal_title：Cancer gene therapy

authors： Morel A,de La Coste A,Fernandez N,Berson A,Kaybanda M,Molina T,Briand P,Haddada H,Guillet JG,Antoine B,Viguier M,Kahn A

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Breast cancer is the most common cause of cancer-related death worldwide, thus remaining a crucial health problem among women despite advances in conventional therapy. Therefore, new alternative strategies are needed for effective diagnosis and treatment. One approach is the use of oncolytic viruses for gene-directed ...

journal_title：Cancer gene therapy

authors： Seubert CM,Stritzker J,Hess M,Donat U,Sturm JB,Chen N,von Hof JM,Krewer B,Tietze LF,Gentschev I,Szalay AA

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma) gene/retroviral vector cell vaccinations have generated protective responses from unmodified tumor cell challenges as well as a regression of established tumors in animal models. The purpose of this trial was to determine the feasibility and safety of a direct intratumoral inject...

journal_title：Cancer gene therapy

authors： Nemunaitis J,Fong T,Robbins JM,Edelman G,Edwards W,Paulson RS,Bruce J,Ognoskie N,Wynne D,Pike M,Kowal K,Merritt J,Ando D

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene therapy designed to initiate apoptotic cell death provides a potentially effective method to treat cancer. A prerequisite for this approach is the identification of genes that function in distinct apoptotic pathways. Although apoptotic pathways initiated by receptors such as tumor necrosis factor receptor-1 are w...

journal_title：Cancer gene therapy

authors： Yin S,Hung MC,Goodrich DW

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00