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ReviewMolecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy2009

Cell carriers for oncolytic viruses: Fed Ex for cancer therapy.

Candice Willmon, Kevin Harrington, Timothy Kottke, Robin Prestwich, Alan Melcher, Richard Vile

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Review in Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 97 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

97 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Intravenous infusion of engineered megakaryocytes to produce oncolytic platelets in vivo for enhanced cancer immunotherapy.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  19. Oncolytic Virotherapy and Microenvironment in Multiple Myeloma.International journal of molecular sciences · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Candice WillmonDepartment of Molecular Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA.
Kevin Harrington
Timothy Kottke
Robin Prestwich
Alan Melcher
Richard Vile

Funding

T Cell Based Carriers for In Vivo Gene Therapy of CancerR01CA107082 · NCI · MAYO CLINIC ROCHESTER · PI VILE, RICHARD G. · 2005 to 2014
$2.5M
Autoimmunity and anti tumor immunity outside of the melanocyte/melanoma paradigmR01CA132734 · NCI · MAYO CLINIC ROCHESTER · PI VILE, RICHARD G. · 2008 to 2012
$1.5M
Enhancing Systemic Delivery of Oncolytic Viruses for Cancer TherapyR01CA130878 · NCI · MAYO CLINIC ROCHESTER · PI VILE, RICHARD G. · 2009 to 2013
$1.4M
NCI NIH HHS CA107082NCI NIH HHS CA130878NCI NIH HHS CA132734NCI NIH HHS R01 CA107082NCI NIH HHS R01 CA130878NCI NIH HHS R01 CA132734
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Oncolytic viruses delivered directly into the circulation face many hazards that impede their localization to, and infection of, metastatic tumors. Such barriers to systemic delivery could be overcome if couriers, which confer both protection, and tumor localization, to their viral cargoes, could be found. Several preclincal studies have shown that viruses can be loaded into, or onto, different types of cells without losing the biological activity of either virus or cell carrier. Importantly, such loading can significantly protect the viruses from immune-mediated virus-neutralizing activities, including antiviral antibody. Moreover, an impressive portfolio of cellular vehicles, which have some degree of tropism for tumor cells themselves, or for the biological properties associated with the tumor stroma, is already available. Therefore, it will soon be possible to initiate clinical protocols to test the hypopthesis that cell-mediated delivery can permit efficient shipping of oncolytic viruses from the loading bay (the production laboratory) directly to the tumor in immune-competent patients with metastatic disease.

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AnimalsCellsHumansMiceModels, BiologicalNeoplasmsOncolytic VirotherapyOncolytic Viruses

Identifiers

PMID19690519
PMCPMC2834999

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