The results clearly indicate that AlPcS2a-mediated PCI can be used to enhance transfection of a tumor suicide gene such as CD, in malignant glioma cells and cells transfected with both the CD and UPRT genes had a pronounced bystander effect.
Subcutaneous injection of AdMDR1-CD::UPP into the xenografts of mice bearing tumors of A2780/Taxol cells could significantly suppress the tumor growth and prolong survival as compared with the group of A2780 cells.
Human tumor tropic mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) isolated from various tissues and MSCs engineered to express the yeast cytosine deaminase::uracil phosphoribosyl transferase suicide fusion gene (yCD::UPRT-MSCs) released exosomes in conditional medium (CM).