Generation of an adenoviral vector containing an addition of a heterologous ligand to the serotype 3 fiber knob.

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：:Cytotoxicity is an important function of the immune system that results in the destruction of cellular targets by humoral and/or cellular mechanisms. We wanted to assess the possibility of targeting the lytic function of immune cells toward cancer cells, which express the gene coding for a known tumor antigen (Ag) (GA...

journal_title：Cancer gene therapy

authors： Paul S,Bizouarne N,Dott K,Ruet L,Dufour P,Acres RB,Kieny MP

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most advanced solid tumors metastasize to different organs. However, no gene therapy effective for multiple tumors has yet been developed. Since a unique characteristic of bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) is that they migrate to tumor tissues, we wanted to determine whether MSCs could serve as a vehic...

journal_title：Cancer gene therapy

authors： Kanehira M,Xin H,Hoshino K,Maemondo M,Mizuguchi H,Hayakawa T,Matsumoto K,Nakamura T,Nukiwa T,Saijo Y

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancer gene therapy approaches are often designed as single-agent treatments; however, greater therapeutic effect might be obtained if combined with an established conventional treatment regimen such as chemotherapy. In this context, conditional promoters are useful tools, because they may be induced by therapeutic mo...

journal_title：Cancer gene therapy

authors： Walther W,Stein U,Fichtner I,Alexander M,Shoemaker RH,Schlag PM

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:EGP-2, also known as Ep-CAM, is expressed at high levels on the surface of most carcinomas and is therefore considered an attractive target for anticancer strategies. To explore the mechanisms regulating the expression of EGP-2, sequences 3.4 kb upstream of the transcription start site were isolated and assayed for th...

journal_title：Cancer gene therapy

authors： McLaughlin PM,Trzpis M,Kroesen BJ,Helfrich W,Terpstra P,Dokter WH,Ruiters MH,de Leij LF,Harmsen MC

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metastasis is the principal cause of cancer death and occurs through multiple, complex processes. Epithelial to mesenchymal transition (EMT) is an important process during embryonic development and has also been hypothesized to exhibit a significant role in cancer cell invasion and metastasis. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a...

journal_title：Cancer gene therapy

authors： Zhang Z,Zhang M,Chen Q,Zhang Q

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Selection of suitable delivery system is one of the crucial aspects in gene therapy that determines the efficiency of gene therapy. The past two decades have witnessed extensive efforts for finding safe and efficient vectors to overcome the limitations of viral vectors. The utilization of DNA transposon-based vectors ...

journal_title：Cancer gene therapy

authors： Mirzaei H,Sahebkar A,Jaafari MR,Hadjati J,Javanmard SH,Mirzaei HR,Salehi R

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the challenges of oncolytic virotherapy is the inability to easily track or monitor virus activity during treatment. Here we describe the construction and functional characterization of Ad/hTC-GFP-E1, an oncolytic virus whose transgenes GFP and E1A are both under the control of a synthetic promoter (hTC). This ...

journal_title：Cancer gene therapy

authors： Davis JJ,Wang L,Dong F,Zhang L,Guo W,Teraishi F,Xu K,Ji L,Fang B

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rapid development of both knowledge and techniques in molecular biology have made it possible to engineer genetic constructs and transfer them into cells of individuals with various diseases. Such gene therapies may alleviate or perhaps even cure diseases for which no adequate treatment now exists. One potential a...

journal_title：Cancer gene therapy

authors： Cai Q,Rubin JT,Lotze MT

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We recently described a novel nonviral/viral vector for gene transfer, the plasmovirus (Noguiez-Hellin P, Robert-le Meur M, Laune S, et al. C R Acad Sci Paris, Sciences de la Vie. 1996;319:45-50; Noguiez-Hellin P, Robert-le Meur M, Salzmann J-L, et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 1996;93:4175-4180). Plasmoviruses are plas...

journal_title：Cancer gene therapy

authors： Morozov VA,Noguiez-Hellin P,Laune S,Tamboise E,Salzmann JL,Klatzmann D

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cationic liposomes are considered to be safe vectors for gene transfer, but they are less efficient at delivering DNA to cells when compared with retroviral vectors. Cationic liposomes complexed with DNA were targeted to specific cells in vitro by means of monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) or ligands associated with the li...

journal_title：Cancer gene therapy

authors： Kao GY,Change LJ,Allen TM

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oncolytic virotherapy has shown substantial promises as an alternative therapeutic modality for solid tumors in both preclinical studies and clinical trials. The main therapeutic activity of virotherapy derives from the direct lytic effect associated with virus replication and the induction of host immune responses to...

journal_title：Cancer gene therapy

authors： Fu X,Tao L,Rivera A,Xu H,Zhang X

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a type of small noncoding RNAs that have a vital role in basic biological processes such as cellular growth, division and apoptosis. A change in the expression of miRNAs can induce many diseases. Recently, the role of miRNA in some of the cancers as a tumor suppressor and oncogene has been recog...

journal_title：Cancer gene therapy

authors： Ahmadi S,Sharifi M,Salehi R

更新日期：2016-07-01 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：:To investigate a novel suicide gene for nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) therapy, the yCDglyTK gene was constructed by fusing yeast cytosine deaminase (CD) and herpes simplex type 1 thymidine kinase. The expression of the yCDglyTK gene was detected by RT-PCR and Western blotting, and its bioactivity was demonstrated by ...

journal_title：Cancer gene therapy

authors： Xia K,Liang D,Tang A,Feng Y,Zhang J,Pan Q,Long Z,Dai H,Cai F,Wu L,Zhao S,Chen Z,Xia J

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recurrent or metastatic cancer in most cases remains an incurable disease, and thus alternative treatment strategies, such as oncolytic virotherapy, are of great interest for clinical application. Oncolytic adenoviruses (Ads) have many advantages as virotherapeutic agents and have been safely employed in the clinics. ...

journal_title：Cancer gene therapy

authors： Choi IK,Yun CO

更新日期：2013-02-01 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：:A phase I clinical trial using autologous, IL-7 gene-modified tumor cells in patients with disseminated melanoma has been recently completed. Although no major clinical responses were observed, increased antitumor cytotoxicity was measured in postvaccine peripheral blood lymphocytes in a subset of treated patients. To...

journal_title：Cancer gene therapy

authors： Carsana M,Tragni G,Nicolini G,Bersani I,Parmiani G,Anichini A,Sun YS,Möller P,Schadendorf D,Sensi ML

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We tested three hammerhead ribozymes for their ability to bind and cleave RNA transcripts derived from the E6 and E7 genes of human papillomavirus (HPV) type-18. Targets were located at nucleotides (nt) 123, 309, and 671 of the viral transcript. In vitro each ribozyme hybridized to its target site when the ribozyme:ta...

journal_title：Cancer gene therapy

authors： Chen Z,Kamath P,Zhang S,Weil MM,Shillitoe EJ

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The targeted expression of transgenes is one of the principal goals of gene therapy, and it is particularly relevant for the treatment of brain tumors. In this study, we examined the effect of the overexpression of human gas1 (growth arrest specific 1) and human p53 cDNAs, both under the transcriptional control of a p...

journal_title：Cancer gene therapy

authors： Benítez JA,Arregui L,Vergara P,Segovia J

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Survivin is expressed in most cancers but is undetectable in differentiated adult cells, and plays an important role both in the suppression of apoptosis and mitotic spindle checkpoint; thus it has attracted great interest as a potential drug target. In this study, we investigated the antigene and antiproliferative ef...

journal_title：Cancer gene therapy

authors： Shen C,Buck A,Polat B,Schmid-Kotsas A,Matuschek C,Gross HJ,Bachem M,Reske SN

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present here the updated results after 9 years of the beginning of a trial on canine patients with malignant melanoma. This surgery adjuvant approach combined local suicide gene therapy with a subcutaneous vaccine composed by tumor cells extracts and xenogeneic cells producing human interleukin-2 and granulocyte-ma...

journal_title：Cancer gene therapy

authors： Finocchiaro LM,Glikin GC

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple myeloma (MM) is one of hematological malignancies, characterized by malignant proliferation of plasma cells. Biomarkers play an important role in evaluating the development and prognosis of MM. Ubiquitin-conjugating enzyme E2T (UBE2T) is served to connect with particular E3 ubiquitin ligase to degraded-relate...

journal_title：Cancer gene therapy

authors： Zhang W,Zhang Y,Yang Z,Liu X,Yang P,Wang J,Hu K,He X,Zhang X,Jing H

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of local and systemic delivery of the angiostatin gene on human melanoma growth was studied in nude mice. Liposome-coated plasmids carrying the cDNA coding for murine and human angiostatin (CMVang and BSHang) were injected weekly, locally or systemically, in mice transplanted with melanoma cells. The treatm...

journal_title：Cancer gene therapy

authors： Rodolfo M,Catò EM,Soldati S,Ceruti R,Asioli M,Scanziani E,Vezzoni P,Parmiani G,Sacco MG

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are important regulators that play key roles in tumorigenesis and tumor progression. In this study, we investigate whether let-7b acts as a tumor suppressor to inhibit invasion and metastasis in gastric cancers. We analyzed the expression of let-7b in 60 pair-matched gastric neoplastic and adjacent ...

journal_title：Cancer gene therapy

authors： Han X,Chen Y,Yao N,Liu H,Wang Z

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The DNA repair enzyme O6-methylguanine DNA methyltransferase (MGMT) is epigenetically silenced in some tumors by MGMT gene promoter methylation. MGMT-hypermethylated solid tumors have enhanced susceptibility to the cytotoxic effects of alkylating chemotherapy such as temozolomide, compared with non-methylated tumors. ...

journal_title：Cancer gene therapy

authors： Ambady P,Wu YJ,Walker JM,Kersch C,Pagel MA,Woltjer RL,Fu R,Muldoon LL,Neuwelt EA

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transfer of genes to the gastrointestinal epithelium would be advantageous from investigational and therapeutic standpoints. Efficient transfer of DNA to the intestinal epithelial cells, however, has been problematic with conventional viral and nonviral vectors. As an alternative, we have utilized molecular conjugate ...

journal_title：Cancer gene therapy

authors： Batra RK,Berschneider H,Curiel DT

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oncolytic reovirus administration has been well tolerated by cancer patients in clinical trials. However, its anti-cancer efficacy as a monotherapy remains to be augmented. We and others have previously demonstrated the feasibility of producing replication-competent reoviruses expressing a heterologous transgene. Here...

journal_title：Cancer gene therapy

authors： Kemp V,van den Wollenberg DJM,Camps MGM,van Hall T,Kinderman P,Pronk-van Montfoort N,Hoeben RC

更新日期：2019-09-01 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：:It has been demonstrated that survivin, a novel member of the inhibitor of apoptosis (IAP) protein family, is expressed in human cancers but is undetectable in normal differentiated tissues. We employed a recombinant adenoviral vector (reAdGL3BSurvivin) in which a tumor-specific survivin promoter and a luciferase repo...

journal_title：Cancer gene therapy

authors： Zhu ZB,Makhija SK,Lu B,Wang M,Kaliberova L,Liu B,Rivera AA,Nettelbeck DM,Mahasreshti PJ,Leath CA,Barker S,Yamaoto M,Li F,Alvarez RD,Curiel DT

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00