Inflammatory thoughts about glioma gene therapy.

Kielian, T; Hickey, W F · Nat Med · 1999

editorial · Level V

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Abstract

Gene therapy for treatment of glioma often involves delivery of herpes simplex virus-1 thymidine kinase gene. A new study shows that this approach can induce chronic inflammation, and raises important questions about current adenoviral-based clinical trials (pages 1256-1263).

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