Antitumor immune responses mediated by adenoviral GDEPT using nitroreductase/CB1954 is enhanced by high-level coexpression of heat shock protein 70.

abstract：:We examined the host immune response to the poorly immunogenic B16-BL6 melanoma, which was transduced to secrete granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) (450 ng/10(6)/24 h). Tumor growth after subcutaneous inoculation was not significantly altered, although an influx of neutrophils and monocytes/macr...

journal_title：Cancer gene therapy

authors： Arca MJ,Krauss JC,Aruga A,Cameron MJ,Shu S,Chang AE

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Various therapeutic approaches toward killing glioma cells by inducing apoptosis have been developed, but these approaches are often hampered by anti-apoptotic mechanisms. In this study, we attempted to develop a technique that overrides the resistance toward apoptosis in glioma cells. To date, p53- and Fas-mediated a...

journal_title：Cancer gene therapy

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

更新日期：2000-05-01 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：: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：:The use of prodrug-activated ("suicide") gene therapy has been shown to be effective in inducing tumor regression when only a small proportion of tumor cells contains the suicide gene. These experiments were designed to test whether additional therapeutic benefit may be obtained by stimulating the immune response. Mur...

journal_title：Cancer gene therapy

authors： Jones RK,Pope IM,Kinsella AR,Watson AJ,Christmas SE

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immune checkpoint inhibition (ICI) has revolutionized cancer treatment, and produced durable responses in many cancer types. However, there remains a subset of patients that do not respond despite their tumors exhibiting PD-L1 expression, which highlights the need for additional biomarkers relevant to response. Here, ...

journal_title：Cancer gene therapy

authors： Choucair K,Morand S,Stanbery L,Edelman G,Dworkin L,Nemunaitis J

更新日期：2020-12-01 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：:Adenovirus (Adv)-mediated herpes simplex virus thymidine kinase (adv/tk) gene therapy combined with ganciclovir (GCV) medication is a promising approach for the treatment of malignant glioma. However, optimal administration and the effect of possible adjuvant treatments have not been fully examined. In the present stu...

journal_title：Cancer gene therapy

authors： Tyynelä K,Sandmair AM,Turunen M,Vanninen R,Vainio P,Kauppinen R,Johansson R,Vapalahti M,Ylä-Herttuala S

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oncolytic adenoviruses are promising anticancer agents. To study and optimize their tumor-killing potency, genuine tumor models are required. Here we describe the use of the chicken chorioallantoic membrane (CAM) tumor model in studies on oncolytic adenoviral vectors. Suspensions of human melanoma, colorectal carcinom...

journal_title：Cancer gene therapy

authors： Durupt F,Koppers-Lalic D,Balme B,Budel L,Terrier O,Lina B,Thomas L,Hoeben RC,Rosa-Calatrava M

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have indicated that the cytokine interleukin (IL)-21 may induce both innate and adaptive immune responses against tumors. The goal of this study was to evaluate a new adoptive immunotherapy strategy that combined lymphocytes from mice immunized with a murine myeloma vaccine secreting murine IL-21 (mIL...

journal_title：Cancer gene therapy

authors： Dou J,Wu Y,Wang J,Zhao F,Chu L,Liu C,Wen P,Hu W,Hu K,He XF,Gu N

更新日期：2010-10-01 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 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：:Sodium iodide symporter (NIS) reporter gene imaging is an excellent technology for noninvasive cell fate determination in living animals unless the NIS-transduced cells reside in perigastric organs such as the spleen, liver, diaphragm, omentum, pancreas, perigastric lymph nodes or perigastric tumor deposits. Here we r...

journal_title：Cancer gene therapy

authors： Suksanpaisan L,Pham L,McIvor S,Russell SJ,Peng KW

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The significant burden of resistance to conventional anticancer treatments in patients with advanced disease has prompted the need to explore alternative therapeutic strategies. The challenge for oncology researchers is to identify a therapy which is selective for tumors with limited toxicity to normal tissue. Enginee...

journal_title：Cancer gene therapy

authors： Cronin M,Stanton RM,Francis KP,Tangney M

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Apoptotic pathways are initiated as a cellular defense mechanism to eliminate adenovirus-infected cells. We have investigated how E1A-induced apoptosis interferes with viral replication in cancer cells. We found that E1B19K alone can efficiently suppress E1A-induced apoptosis in cancer cells. Viruses deleted for both ...

journal_title：Cancer gene therapy

authors： Rao XM,Tseng MT,Zheng X,Dong Y,Jamshidi-Parsian A,Thompson TC,Brenner MK,McMasters KM,Zhou HS

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) recurrence is one of the leading causes of death after orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT). The sixth complement component (C6) is a late-acting complement protein that participates in the assembly of the membrane attack complex, which has an indispensable role in innate and acquired ...

journal_title：Cancer gene therapy

authors： Wang Z,Liao J,Wu S,Li C,Fan J,Peng Z

更新日期：2016-06-01 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

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：: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：:Interferon-gamma (IFN-γ) exhibits biological activities that are considered to have important roles in tumor suppression. Therefore, the IFN-γ gene is a potential candidate for in vivo cytokine gene therapy against skin cancer. The present study evaluated the efficacy of a hydrodynamics-based IFN-γ gene transfection f...

journal_title：Cancer gene therapy

authors： Ko JH,Jung BG,Park YS,Lee BJ

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this article we describe an improved method to produce a conjugate of anti-erythrocyte growth factor (EGF) receptor monoclonal antibody with polylysine via thio-ether bonds. The resulting antibody/polylysine conjugate was found to be a much more stable DNA (gene) carrier than the previous conjugate formed via disul...

journal_title：Cancer gene therapy

authors： Shimizu N,Chen J,Gamou S,Takayanagi A

更新日期：1996-03-01 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：: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：:Replication-competent adenoviruses (Ads) were used for oncolytic virotherapy soon after they were discovered. Recently mutated and genetically engineered Ads have been shown to selectively lyse tumor cells. We have split the human Ad type 5 genome into two defective viruses that complement each other only in certain t...

journal_title：Cancer gene therapy

authors： Alemany R,Lai S,Lou YC,Jan HY,Fang X,Zhang WW

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite radical surgery and multi-agent chemotherapy, less than one third of patients with recurrent or metastatic osteosarcoma (OS) survive. The limited efficacy of current therapeutic approaches to target tumor-initiating cells (TICs) may explain this dismal outcome. The purpose of this study was to assess the impac...

journal_title：Cancer gene therapy

authors： Rainusso N,Brawley VS,Ghazi A,Hicks MJ,Gottschalk S,Rosen JM,Ahmed N

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is growing evidence that combinations of antiangiogenic proteins with other antineoplastic treatments such as chemo- or radiotherapy and suicide genes-mediated tumor cytotoxicity lead to synergistic effects. In the present work, we tested the activity of two non-replicative herpes simplex virus (HSV)-1-based vec...

journal_title：Cancer gene therapy

authors： Berto E,Bozac A,Volpi I,Lanzoni I,Vasquez F,Melara N,Manservigi R,Marconi P

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inflammation, among environmental risk factors, is one of the most important contributors to colorectal cancer (CRC) development. In this way, studies revealed that the incidence of CRC in inflammatory bowel disease patients is up to 60% higher than the general population. MicroRNAs (miRNAs), small noncoding RNA molec...

journal_title：Cancer gene therapy

authors： Karimzadeh MR,Zarin M,Ehtesham N,Khosravi S,Soosanabadi M,Mosallaei M,Pourdavoud P

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Expression of costimulatory molecules by recombinant poxviruses is a promising strategy for enhancing therapeutic vaccines. CD40-CD40L interactions are critical for conditioning dendritic cells (DC) and priming T- and B-cell immunity. We constructed a vaccinia virus expressing murine CD40L (rV-CD40L) and studied its i...

journal_title：Cancer gene therapy

authors： Bereta M,Bereta J,Park J,Medina F,Kwak H,Kaufman HL

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aberrantly expressed microRNAs (miRNAs) are involved in breast tumorigenesis. It is still unclear if and how miRNAs-221/222 are implicated in breast cancer and the resistance to estrogen receptor modulator tamoxifen. We investigated the roles and mechanisms of miR-221/222 in breast cancer cells, particularly in modula...

journal_title：Cancer gene therapy

authors： Gan R,Yang Y,Yang X,Zhao L,Lu J,Meng QH

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interleukin-2 (IL-2) and interleukin-12 (IL-12) are crucial cytokines that induce potent antitumor responses in a variety of animal cancer models. Although single gene transfer of either IL-2 or IL-12 exhibits limited antitumor effects, the combination of IL-2 and IL-12 has been shown to induce a stronger antitumor re...

journal_title：Cancer gene therapy

authors： Tanaka M,Saijo Y,Sato G,Suzuki T,Tazawa R,Satoh K,Nukiwa T

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00