Anticancer activity of oncolytic adenovirus vector armed with IFN-alpha and ADP is enhanced by pharmacologically controlled expression of TRAIL.

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：:Drug metabolizing transgene products, which activate bioreductive cytotoxins, can be used to target treatment-resistant hypoxic tumors. The prodrug AQ4N is bioreduced in hypoxic cells by cytochrome P450s (CYPs) to the cytotoxin AQ4. Previously we have shown that intra-tumoral injection of CYP3A4 and CYP2B6 transgenes ...

journal_title：Cancer gene therapy

authors： Yakkundi A,McErlane V,Murray M,McCarthy HO,Ward C,Hughes CM,Patterson LH,Hirst DG,McKeown SR,Robson T

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:All animal experiments were approved by the Animal Care and Use Committee (ACUC), Louisiana State University Health Science Center and not The People's Hospital of Liaoning Province as indicated in the original version of the Article. The PDF and HTML versions of the Article have been modified accordingly. ...

journal_title：Cancer gene therapy

authors： Yao Z,Yang S,Zhao H,Yang H,Jiang X

更新日期：2019-07-01 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：:Gastric cancer is the fourth most common type of cancer. Liver-intestine cadherin (CDH17) has been found to be involved in the proliferation and apoptosis of gastric cancer cells. Cisplatin is one of the most widely used antineoplastic agents in the treatment of solid tumor and hematological malignancies. However, the...

journal_title：Cancer gene therapy

authors： Liu M,Han Z,Zhu QX,Tan J,Liu WJ,Wang YF,Chen W,Zou YL,Cai YS,Tian X,Huang X

更新日期：2018-02-01 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：: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：:Herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) is one of the most widely studied viruses for oncolytic virotherapy. In squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) cells, the role of autophagy induced by neurovirulence gene-deficient HSV-1s in programmed cell death has not yet been elucidated. The oncolytic HSV-1 strain RH2, which lacks the γ3...

journal_title：Cancer gene therapy

authors： Furukawa Y,Takasu A,Yura Y

更新日期：2017-09-01 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：:The human epidermal growth factor receptors 2, 3, and 4 (HER2, HER3, and HER4, respectively) are frequently overexpressed in many human cancers, and therefore may be potential targets for receptor-mediated gene transfer. To evaluate this possibility, we constructed a series of HER-targeted gene transfer vehicles by co...

journal_title：Cancer gene therapy

authors： Kern JA,Wakita R,Sliwkowski MX

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oncolytic herpes simplex virus (oHSV)-1-based vectors selectively replicate in tumor cells causing direct killing, that is, oncolysis, while sparing normal cells. The oHSVs are promising anticancer agents, but their efficacy, when used as single agents, leaves room for improvement. We hypothesized that combining the d...

journal_title：Cancer gene therapy

authors： Passer BJ,Cheema T,Wu S,Wu CL,Rabkin SD,Martuza RL

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ING4 as a member of inhibitor of growth (ING) tumor suppressor family has potent inhibitory effects on a variety of tumors. Interleukin-24 (IL-24), a cytokine-tumor suppressor, also shows broad-spectrum and tumor-specific antitumor activities. In this report, we constructed an ING4/IL-24 bicistronic adenovirus (Ad-ING...

journal_title：Cancer gene therapy

authors： Zhu Y,Lv H,Xie Y,Sheng W,Xiang J,Yang J

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multicomponent lipoplexes have recently emerged as especially promising transfection candidates, as they are from 10 to 100 times more efficient than binary complexes usually employed for gene delivery purposes. Previously, we investigated a number of chemical-physical properties of DNA-lipid complexes that were propo...

journal_title：Cancer gene therapy

authors： Marchini C,Pozzi D,Montani M,Alfonsi C,Amici A,Candeloro De Sanctis S,Digman MA,Sanchez S,Gratton E,Amenitsch H,Fabbretti A,Gualerzi CO,Caracciolo G

更新日期：2011-08-01 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：:Over the past several years we have obtained considerable evidence indicating that adenoviruses-expressing interferon α (Ad-IFNα) can overcome resistance to the IFNα protein itself. Since cancer cells infected with Ad-IFNα also show high perinuclear cytoplasmic IFNα expression, we were interested in whether endoplasmi...

journal_title：Cancer gene therapy

authors： Yang Z,Zhang XQ,Dinney CN,Benedict WF

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report that radiation enhances the antitumor efficacy of the oncolytic adenovirus vector VRX-007 in Syrian hamster tumors. We used tumor-specific irradiation of subcutaneous tumors and compared treatment options of radiation alone or combined with VRX-007 and cyclophosphamide (CP). Radiation therapy further augment...

journal_title：Cancer gene therapy

authors： Young BA,Spencer JF,Ying B,Toth K,Wold WS

更新日期：2013-09-01 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 Ki-ras gene is frequently mutated and/or overexpressed in human cancer. Since it is suspected to play a key role in the pathogenesis of many tumors, there is interest to search for strategies aiming at the specific inhibition of this oncogene. In this paper, we investigated the capacity of a 20 mer G-rich oligonuc...

journal_title：Cancer gene therapy

authors： Cogoi S,Ballico M,Bonora GM,Xodo LE

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Poor tumor targeting of oncolytic adenoviruses (OAdv) after systemic administration is considered a major limitation for virotherapy of disseminated cancers. The benefit of using mesenchymal stem cells as cell carriers for OAdv tumor targeting is currently evaluated not only in preclinical models but also in clinical ...

journal_title：Cancer gene therapy

authors： Barlabé P,Sostoa J,Fajardo CA,Alemany R,Moreno R

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heat shock proteins (hsps) chaperone cytosolic peptides, forming complexes that stimulate antitumor immunity. Hsps facilitate signal 1 in the two-signal model of T-cell costimulation, whereas cell adhesion molecules such as B7.1 provide secondary (signal 2) costimulatory signals. B7.1 gene transfer into tumors in situ...

journal_title：Cancer gene therapy

authors： Rafiee M,Kanwar JR,Berg RW,Lehnert K,Lisowska K,Krissansen GW

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) remains the leading cause of cancer-related death worldwide. Accumulating research has highlighted the ability of exosome-encapsulated microRNAs (miRNAs or miRs) as potential circulating biomarkers for lung cancer. The current study aimed to evaluate the clinical significance of seru...

journal_title：Cancer gene therapy

authors： Xu S,Zheng L,Kang L,Xu H,Gao L

更新日期：2020-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:B-cell malignancies upregulate the B-cell lymphoma 2 (Bcl-2) family inhibitors of the intrinsic apoptosis pathway, making them therapy resistant. However, small-molecule inhibitors of Bcl-2 family members such as ABT-737 restore a functional apoptosis pathway in cancer cells, and its oral analog ABT-263 (Navitoclax) h...

journal_title：Cancer gene therapy

authors： Karlsson H,Lindqvist AC,Fransson M,Paul-Wetterberg G,Nilsson B,Essand M,Nilsson K,Frisk P,Jernberg-Wiklund H,Loskog A

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prognosis of glioblastoma remains poor despite intensive research efforts. Glioblastoma stem cells (GSCs) contribute to tumorigenesis, invasive capacity, and therapy resistance. Leucine-rich repeat-containing G-protein coupled receptor 5 (Lgr5), a stem cell marker, is involved in the maintenance of GSCs, although ...

journal_title：Cancer gene therapy

authors： Tanigawa S,Fujita M,Moyama C,Ando S,Ii H,Kojima Y,Fujishita T,Aoki M,Takeuchi H,Yamanaka T,Takahashi Y,Hashimoto N,Nakata S

更新日期：2021-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：:To develop novel therapies for aggressive thyroid cancers, we have synthesized a collection of histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitor analogs named AB1 to AB13, which have different linkers between a metal chelating group and a hydrophobic cap. The purpose of this study was to screen out the most effective compounds and...

journal_title：Cancer gene therapy

authors： Jang S,Yu XM,Odorico S,Clark M,Jaskula-Sztul R,Schienebeck CM,Kupcho KR,Harrison AD,Winston-McPherson GN,Tang W,Chen H

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemotherapy is the preferred treatment for malignancies. However, a successful long-term use of chemotherapy is often prevented by the development of drug resistance. Many mechanisms such as gene mutation, DNA methylation and histone modification have important roles in the resistance of cancer cells to chemotherapeu...

journal_title：Cancer gene therapy

authors： Ma J,Dong C,Ji C

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The zinc-fingers and homeoboxes (ZHX) family is a group of nuclear homodimeric transcriptional repressors that interact with a subunit of nuclear factor-Y (NF-YA) and contain two C2H2-type zinc fingers and five homeobox DNA-binding domains. The members of ZHX family form homodimers or heterodimers with other members o...

journal_title：Cancer gene therapy

authors： Liu Y,Ma D,Ji C

更新日期：2015-05-01 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：:We have examined the effect of adenoviruses expressing soluble transforming growth factor receptorII-Fc (sTGFβRIIFc) in a 4T1 mouse mammary tumor bone metastasis model using syngeneic BALB/c mice. Infection of 4T1 cells with a non-replicating adenovirus, Ad(E1-).sTβRFc, or with two oncolytic adenoviruses, Ad.sTβRFc an...

journal_title：Cancer gene therapy

authors： Zhang Z,Hu Z,Gupta J,Krimmel JD,Gerseny HM,Berg AF,Robbins JS,Du H,Prabhakar B,Seth P

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The p16INK4 tumor suppressor gene encodes a protein that inhibits cyclin-dependent kinase 4, and its homologous deletion is common in human breast cancer. p16INK4 gene transfer has been reported to be efficacious in inducing growth inhibition of various human tumors such as brain, lung, prostate, and esophageal cancer...

journal_title：Cancer gene therapy

authors： Campbell I,Magliocco A,Moyana T,Zheng C,Xiang J

更新日期：2000-09-01 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