Mechanisms of thymidine kinase/ganciclovir and cytosine deaminase/ 5-fluorocytosine suicide gene therapy-induced cell death in glioma cells.

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Published in Oncogene on February 10, 2005

Authors

Ute Fischer1, Sabine Steffens, Susanne Frank, Nikolai G Rainov, Klaus Schulze-Osthoff, Christof M Kramm

Author Affiliations

1: Institute of Molecular Medicine, Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf, Germany.

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