Cancer-specific targeting of an adenovir
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J. Michael Mathis; B. Jill Williams; Don A. Sibley; Jennifer L. Carroll; Jie Li;
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Article
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2006
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract Two technical hurdles, gene delivery and target specificity, have hindered the development of effective cancer gene therapies. In order to circumvent the problem of tumor specificity, the suicide gene, HSV‐1 thymidine kinase (HSV‐Tk), was modified with a complex 5′ upstream‐untranslated