virotherapy
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Virotherapy — is an experimental form of cancer treatment using biotechnology to convert viruses into cancer fighting agents by reprogramming viruses to only attack cancerous cells while healthy cells remained undamaged. The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) … Wikipedia
virotherapy — Treatment using a virus that has been changed in the laboratory to find and destroy cancer cells without harming healthy cells. It is a type of targeted therapy. Also called oncolytic virotherapy and viral therapy … English dictionary of cancer terms
oncolytic virotherapy — Treatment using a virus that has been changed in the laboratory to find and destroy cancer cells without harming healthy cells. It is a type of targeted therapy. Also called virotherapy and viral therapy … English dictionary of cancer terms
Oncolytic virus — An oncolytic virus is a virus that preferentially infects and lyses cancer cells; these have obvious functions for cancer therapy, both by direct destruction of the tumour cells, and, if modified, as vectors enabling genes expressing anticancer… … Wikipedia
Onkolyse — Onkolytische Viren werden experimentell im Rahmen einer onkolytischen Virotherapie (englisch: oncolytic cancer virotherapy) zur Therapie von Krebserkrankungen eingesetzt. Onkolytische Viren sollen sich möglichst spezifisch nur in Tumorzellen… … Deutsch Wikipedia
Onkolytische Viren — werden experimentell im Rahmen einer onkolytischen Virotherapie (englisch: oncolytic cancer virotherapy) zur Therapie von Krebserkrankungen eingesetzt. Onkolytische Viren sollen sich möglichst spezifisch nur in Tumorzellen vermehren und dadurch… … Deutsch Wikipedia
viral therapy — Treatment using a virus that has been changed in the laboratory to find and destroy cancer cells without harming healthy cells. It is a type of targeted therapy. Also called virotherapy and oncolytic virotherapy … English dictionary of cancer terms
Therapy — For other uses, see Therapy (disambiguation). Therapy Intervention MeSH D013812 Therapy (in Greek: θεραπεία), or treatment, is the attempted remediation of a health problem, usually fo … Wikipedia
Virus — This article is about the biological agent. For other uses, see Virus (disambiguation). For a generally accessible and less technical introduction to the topic, see Introduction to viruses. Viruses … Wikipedia
