Oncolytic virotherapy

SJ Russell, KW Peng, JC Bell - Nature biotechnology, 2012 - nature.com
Oncolytic virotherapy is an emerging treatment modality that uses replication-competent
viruses to destroy cancers. Recent advances include preclinical proof of feasibility for a …

New viruses for cancer therapy: meeting clinical needs

TS Miest, R Cattaneo - Nature reviews microbiology, 2014 - nature.com
Early-stage clinical trials of oncolytic virotherapy have reported the safety of several virus
platforms, and viruses from three families have progressed to advanced efficacy trials. In …

Slicing and dicing viruses: antiviral RNA interference in mammals

PV Maillard, AG Van der Veen, EZ Poirier… - The EMBO …, 2019 - embopress.org
To protect against the harmful consequences of viral infections, organisms are equipped
with sophisticated antiviral mechanisms, including cell‐intrinsic means to restrict viral …

Vesicular stomatitis virus as a flexible platform for oncolytic virotherapy against cancer

E Hastie, VZ Grdzelishvili - Journal of General Virology, 2012 - microbiologyresearch.org
Oncolytic virus (OV) therapy is an emerging anti-cancer approach that utilizes viruses to
preferentially infect and kill cancer cells, while not harming healthy cells. Vesicular stomatitis …

Trial Watch—Oncolytic viruses and cancer therapy

J Pol, A Buqué, F Aranda, N Bloy, I Cremer… - …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Oncolytic virotherapy relies on the administration of non-pathogenic viral strains that
selectively infect and kill malignant cells while favoring the elicitation of a therapeutically …

Immunovirotherapy with vesicular stomatitis virus and PD-L1 blockade enhances therapeutic outcome in murine acute myeloid leukemia

W Shen, MM Patnaik, A Ruiz… - Blood, The Journal of …, 2016 - ashpublications.org
Patients with relapsed acute myeloid leukemia (AML) have limited therapeutic options.
Vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV)–interferon β (IFNβ)–sodium iodide symporter (NIS) is an …

A tool with many applications: vesicular stomatitis virus in research and medicine

AM Munis, EM Bentley, Y Takeuchi - Expert Opinion on Biological …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction Vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) has long been a useful research tool in virology
and recently become an essential part of medicinal products. Vesiculovirus research is …

Understanding and altering cell tropism of vesicular stomatitis virus

E Hastie, M Cataldi, I Marriott, VZ Grdzelishvili - Virus research, 2013 - Elsevier
Vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) is a prototypic nonsegmented negative-strand RNA virus.
VSV's broad cell tropism makes it a popular model virus for many basic research …

Trial watch: oncolytic viruses for cancer therapy

J Pol, N Bloy, F Obrist, A Eggermont, J Galon… - …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Oncolytic viruses are natural or genetically modified viral species that selectively infect and
kill neoplastic cells. Such an innate or exogenously conferred specificity has generated …

Re-engineering vesicular stomatitis virus to abrogate neurotoxicity, circumvent humoral immunity, and enhance oncolytic potency

A Muik, LJ Stubbert, RZ Jahedi, Y Geiβ, J Kimpel… - Cancer research, 2014 - AACR
As cancer treatment tools, oncolytic viruses (OV) have yet to realize what some see as their
ultimate clinical potential. In this study, we have engineered a chimeric vesicular stomatitis …