Suicide gene therapy: A special focus on progress and concerns about cancer treatment

<p>Suicide gene therapy is based on transfer of a suicide viral or a bacterial gene into tumor cells. Expression of these genes leads to non-toxic substances in cell convert to lethal chemotherapeutic agents. However this approach to gene therapy has been widely welcomed by gene researchers an...

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Main Author: Ahmad Gholami
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Shiraz University of Medical Sciences 2017-11-01
Series:Trends in Pharmaceutical Sciences
Online Access:http://tips.sums.ac.ir/index.php/TiPS/article/view/155