Activating Peripheral Innate Immunity Enables Safe and Effective Oncolytic Virotherapy in the Brain

The oncolytic mutant vesicular stomatitis virus VSVΔ51 achieves robust efficacy in multiple extracranial tumor models. Yet for malignancies of the brain, direct intratumoral infusion of VSVΔ51 causes lethal virus-induced neuropathology. Here, we have developed a novel therapeutic regime that uses pe...

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Main Authors: Lukxmi Balathasan, Vera A. Tang, Beta Yadollahi, Jan Brun, Melanie Labelle, Charles Lefebvre, Stephanie L. Swift, David F. Stojdl
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2017-12-01
Series:Molecular Therapy: Oncolytics
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2372770517300438