Recombinant Viruses for Cancer Therapy.

Recombinant viruses are novel therapeutic agents that can be utilized for treatment of various diseases, including cancers. Recombinant viruses can be engineered to express foreign transgenes and have a broad tropism allowing gene expression in a wide range of host cells. They can be selected or des...

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Main Authors: Chulpanova, Daria S., Solovyeva, Valeriya V., Kitaeva, Kristina V., Dunham, Stephen P., Khaiboullina, Svetlana F., Rizvanov, Albert A.
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Language:English
Published: MDPI 2018
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author Chulpanova, Daria S.
Solovyeva, Valeriya V.
Kitaeva, Kristina V.
Dunham, Stephen P.
Khaiboullina, Svetlana F.
Rizvanov, Albert A.
author_facet Chulpanova, Daria S.
Solovyeva, Valeriya V.
Kitaeva, Kristina V.
Dunham, Stephen P.
Khaiboullina, Svetlana F.
Rizvanov, Albert A.
author_sort Chulpanova, Daria S.
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description Recombinant viruses are novel therapeutic agents that can be utilized for treatment of various diseases, including cancers. Recombinant viruses can be engineered to express foreign transgenes and have a broad tropism allowing gene expression in a wide range of host cells. They can be selected or designed for specific therapeutic goals; for example, recombinant viruses could be used to stimulate host immune response against tumor-specific antigens and therefore overcome the ability of the tumor to evade the host's immune surveillance. Alternatively, recombinant viruses could express immunomodulatory genes which stimulate an anti-cancer immune response. Oncolytic viruses can replicate specifically in tumor cells and induce toxic effects leading to cell lysis and apoptosis. However, each of these approaches face certain difficulties that must be resolved to achieve maximum therapeutic efficacy. In this review we discuss actively developing approaches for cancer therapy based on recombinant viruses, problems that need to be overcome, and possible prospects for further development of recombinant virus based therapy.
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spelling nottingham-556262018-12-04T13:52:03Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/55626/ Recombinant Viruses for Cancer Therapy. Chulpanova, Daria S. Solovyeva, Valeriya V. Kitaeva, Kristina V. Dunham, Stephen P. Khaiboullina, Svetlana F. Rizvanov, Albert A. Recombinant viruses are novel therapeutic agents that can be utilized for treatment of various diseases, including cancers. Recombinant viruses can be engineered to express foreign transgenes and have a broad tropism allowing gene expression in a wide range of host cells. They can be selected or designed for specific therapeutic goals; for example, recombinant viruses could be used to stimulate host immune response against tumor-specific antigens and therefore overcome the ability of the tumor to evade the host's immune surveillance. Alternatively, recombinant viruses could express immunomodulatory genes which stimulate an anti-cancer immune response. Oncolytic viruses can replicate specifically in tumor cells and induce toxic effects leading to cell lysis and apoptosis. However, each of these approaches face certain difficulties that must be resolved to achieve maximum therapeutic efficacy. In this review we discuss actively developing approaches for cancer therapy based on recombinant viruses, problems that need to be overcome, and possible prospects for further development of recombinant virus based therapy. MDPI 2018-09-25 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en cc_by https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/55626/1/biomedicines-06-00094.pdf Chulpanova, Daria S., Solovyeva, Valeriya V., Kitaeva, Kristina V., Dunham, Stephen P., Khaiboullina, Svetlana F. and Rizvanov, Albert A. (2018) Recombinant Viruses for Cancer Therapy. Biomedicines, 6 (94). pp. 1-14. ISSN 2227-9059 https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9059/6/4/94 doi:10.3390/biomedicines6040094 doi:10.3390/biomedicines6040094
spellingShingle Chulpanova, Daria S.
Solovyeva, Valeriya V.
Kitaeva, Kristina V.
Dunham, Stephen P.
Khaiboullina, Svetlana F.
Rizvanov, Albert A.
Recombinant Viruses for Cancer Therapy.
title Recombinant Viruses for Cancer Therapy.
title_full Recombinant Viruses for Cancer Therapy.
title_fullStr Recombinant Viruses for Cancer Therapy.
title_full_unstemmed Recombinant Viruses for Cancer Therapy.
title_short Recombinant Viruses for Cancer Therapy.
title_sort recombinant viruses for cancer therapy.
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https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/55626/
https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/55626/