Preclinical evaluation of engineered oncolytic herpes simplex virus for the treatment of pediatric solid tumors.

Recently, investigators showed that mice with syngeneic murine gliomas that were treated with a neuroattenuated oncolytic herpes simplex virus-1 (oHSV), M002, had a significant increase in survival. M002 has deletions in both copies of the γ134.5 gene, enabling replication in tumor cells but preclud...

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Main Authors: Michael L Megison, Lauren A Gillory, Jerry E Stewart, Hugh C Nabers, Elizabeth Mroczek-Musulman, Alicia M Waters, Jennifer M Coleman, Virginia Kelly, James M Markert, G Yancey Gillespie, Gregory K Friedman, Elizabeth A Beierle
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3907427?pdf=render