Prodrug cancer gene therapy

C Altaner - Cancer letters, 2008 - Elsevier
There is no effective treatment for late stage and metastatic cancers of colorectal, prostate,
pancreatic, breast, glioblastoma and melanoma cancers. Novel treatment modalities are …

Transcriptional targeting in cancer gene therapy

T Robson, DG Hirst - BioMed Research International, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
Cancer gene therapy has been one of the most exciting areas of therapeutic research in the
past decade. In this review, we discuss strategies to restrict transcription of transgenes to …

Prodrugs for gene‐directed enzyme‐prodrug therapy (suicide gene therapy)

WA Denny - BioMed Research International, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
This review focuses on the prodrugs used in suicide gene therapy. These prodrugs need to
satisfy a number of criteria. They must be efficient and selective substrates for the activating …

Transcriptional gene expression profiling of small cell lung cancer cells

N Pedersen, S Mortensen, SB Sørensen… - Cancer research, 2003 - AACR
A global gene expression analysis using oligonucleotide microarrays was performed on
many human small cell lung cancer (SCLC) cell lines in cell culture and/or as xenografts …

Therapeutic Efficacy of Replication-Competent Retrovirus Vector–Mediated Suicide Gene Therapy in a Multifocal Colorectal Cancer Metastasis Model

K Hiraoka, T Kimura, CR Logg, CK Tai, K Haga… - Cancer research, 2007 - AACR
Replication-competent retrovirus (RCR) vectors are intrinsically incapable of infecting
quiescent cells and have been shown to achieve highly efficient and tumor-restricted …

Concise review: genetically engineered stem cell therapy targeting angiogenesis and tumor stroma in gastrointestinal malignancy

EZ Keung, PJ Nelson, C Conrad - Stem Cells, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Cell-based gene therapy holds considerable promise for the treatment of human
malignancy. Genetically engineered cells if delivered to sites of disease could alleviate …

Gene therapy vectors and cytosine deaminases

HE Gruber, DJ Jolly, OD Perez, CR Logg - US Patent 10,035,983, 2018 - Google Patents
US10035983B2 - Gene therapy vectors and cytosine deaminases - Google Patents
US10035983B2 - Gene therapy vectors and cytosine deaminases - Google Patents Gene therapy …

Carcinoembryonic antigen-producing cell-specific oncolytic adenovirus, OV798, for colorectal cancer therapy

Y Li, Y Chen, J Dilley, T Arroyo, D Ko, P Working… - Molecular Cancer …, 2003 - AACR
Human carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) is overexpressed in most colorectal cancers and
has been widely used as a clinical marker for the management of colon cancer patients. The …

Tissue Specific Cytotoxicity of Colon Cancer Cells Mediated by Nanoparticle-delivered Suicide Gene In vitro and In vivo

G Zhang, T Liu, YH Chen, Y Chen, M Xu, J Peng… - Clinical Cancer …, 2009 - AACR
Purpose: This study aimed to develop an efficient and safe strategy to introduce suicide
genes into colon cancer cells. Experimental Design: In this study, we fused an enhanced …

Applications of tissue-specific and cancer-selective gene promoters for cancer diagnosis and therapy

A Kumar, SK Das, L Emdad, PB Fisher - Advances in Cancer Research, 2023 - Elsevier
Current treatment of solid tumors with standard of care chemotherapies, radiation therapy
and/or immunotherapies are often limited by severe adverse toxic effects, resulting in a …