Cancer gene therapy : past achievements and future challenges /

Bringing together major work achieved during the 1990s in the field of cancer gene therapy, this text focuses on the achievements and definition of future goals.

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Habib, Nagy A.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, [2000]
Series:Advances in experimental medicine and biology ; v. 465.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Preliminaries; Contents; 1 Management Problems in Oncology; 2 Adenoviral Vectors; 3 Retrovirus Vectors; 4 Targetable Gene Delivery Vectors; 5 Human?-fetoprotein Transcriptional Regulatory Sequences: Application to Gene Therapy; 6 Tumor-Targeted Salmonella: Highly Selective Delivery Vectors; 7 Mutant Adenoviruses Selectively Replication-Competent in Tumor Cells; 8 Polyoma and Papilloma Virus Vectors for Cancer Gene Therapy; 9 Cochleates: Lipid-Based Vehicles for Gene Delivery"Concept, ; 10 The Use of Skeletal Muscle to Express Genes for the Treatment of Cancer.