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Systemic treatment of xenografts with vaccinia virus GLV-1h68 reveals the immunologic facet of oncolytic therapy

Andrea Worschech1,2,3, Nanhai Chen1, Yong A Yu1, Qian Zhang1, Zoltan Pos3, Stephanie Weibel1,2, Viktoria Raab1,2, Marianna Sabatino3, Alessandro Monaco3, Hui Liu3, Vladia Monsurró6, R Mark Buller4, David F Stroncek5, Ena Wang3, Aladar A Szalay1,2* and Francesco M Marincola3*

1 Genelux Corporation, San Diego Science Center, San Diego, California, USA

2 Virchow Center for Experimental Biomedicine and Institute for Biochemistry, University of Würzburg, Am Hubland, Würzburg, Germany

3 Infectious Disease and Immunogenetics Section (IDIS), Department of Transfusion Medicine, Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

4 Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO, USA

5 Cellular Processing Section, Department of Transfusion Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

6 Department of Pathology, Immunology Section, University of Verona Medical School, Verona, Italy

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BMC Genomics 2009, 10:301 doi:10.1186/1471-2164-10-301

Published: 7 July 2009

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Replication ability of GLV-1h68 in multiple human cancer cell lines. Viral titers were examined 24, 48 and 72 hpi in 13 human cancer cell lines representing highly susceptible and delayed in vitro replication models.

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Sequence verification of genes which have potentially cross hybridized between human and mouse arrays. The data provided represent the sequence analysis of selected genes which have been described as up regulated in infected GI-101A xenografts based on human 17 K cDNA arrays but not based on human 36 K oligo arrays. Some of the genes were in fact expressed by the host and cross-hybridized to less specific cDNA probes on the human platform.

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