Applications of Viruses for Cancer Therapy

Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-0-12-398342-8
Verlag: William Andrew Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 244 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 760 g

Advances in Cancer Research provides invaluable information on the exciting and fast-moving field of cancer research. This thematic volume looks at "Applications of viruses for cancer therapy". With outstanding and original reviews, this volume covers topics such as Cancer Terminator Viruses and Approaches for Enhancing Therapeutic Outcomes, esign of improved oncolytic adenoviruses, and Adenovirus-based immunotherapies for cancer.

Zielgruppe

Researchers and students in the basic and clinical sciences of cancer biology and oncology, plus related areas in genetics, immunology, pharmacology, cell biology, and molecular biology.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Curiel, David T.

Fisher, Paul

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Vorklinische Medizin: Grundlagenfächer Humangenetik
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Zellbiologie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Klinische und Innere Medizin Immunologie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Vorklinische Medizin: Grundlagenfächer Molekulare Medizin, Zellbiologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Genetik und Genomik (nichtmedizinisch)
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Molekularbiologie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Klinische und Innere Medizin Onkologie, Krebsforschung
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete Pharmakologie, Toxikologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Cancer Terminator Viruses and Approaches for Enhancing Therapeutic Outcomes

2. Targeted Ad

3. Syrian hamster as an animal model for oncolytic adenoviruses and for the study of adenoviral pathogenesis

4. Design of improved oncolytic adenoviruses

5. Imaging of a Somatostatin Receptor-Cytosine Deaminase Fusion Gene

6. Diz Detection

7. Adenovirus-based immunotherapies for cancer

8. Toxin GT

9. Radiation Therapy/ Gene Therapy

10. Cell Vehicles

11. Oncolytic adenoviruses for cancer immunotherapy: data from mice, hamsters and humans

Über Autor(innen)

Curiel, David T.
David T. Curiel, M.D., Ph.D. is the Director of the Cancer Biology Division of the Department of Radiation Oncology at Washington University School of Medicine. Dr. Curiel graduated medical school at Emory University in 1982, where he also completed his internship and residency in Internal Medicine. Dr. Curiel's scientific training includes tenureship at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland at the Pulmonary Branch of the Heart and Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) from 1985-1989, and a fellowship in Biotechnology at the National Cancer Institute, Navy Medical Oncology Branch from 1989-1990. He received his Ph.D. from University of Groningen in The Netherlands in 2002. Dr. Curiel has been at Washington University School of Medicine since 2011. In addition to his role as Director of the Cancer Biology Division, he is Director of the Biologic Therapeutics Center.