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  • noun medicine An antiviral drug used to treat cytomegalovirus infections

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  • Then, they injected harmless viruses carrying the genes for Fms-like tyrosine kinase 3 ligand (Ftl3L; a protein that attracts dendritic cells) and for thymidine kinase (TK; cells expressing TK are killed by a drug called gancyclovir) into the tumor.

    PLoS Medicine: New Articles 2009

  • These agents, which include famciclovir, gancyclovir, acyclovir, and lobucavir, are being tested in clinical trials throughout the world.

    DR. SANJIV CHOPRA’S LIVER BOOK Sanjiv Chopra 2001

  • Patented drugs like fluconazole, gancyclovir, aciclovir and AZT could alleviate the Aids epidemic but were too expensive for the state to make widely available, TAC said.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1999

  • Herein we demonstrate that codelivery of TK (+ systemic gancyclovir [GCV]) to kill glioma cells and release putative endogenous TLR ligands, with Flt3L to attract DCs to the brain, results in a powerful, CD8+ T cell-mediated systemic immune response that elicits tumor regression and immunological memory.

    PLoS Medicine: New Articles 2009

  • We demonstrated that HMGB1 was released from dying tumor cells, in response to Ad-TK (+ gancyclovir [GCV]) treatment.

    PLoS Medicine: New Articles 2009

  • Expression of both Flt3L and TK (but not of either protein alone) plus gancyclovir treatment shrank the tumors and greatly improved the survival of the mice.

    PLoS Medicine: New Articles 2009

  • Of 800 G418 (neomycin) and gancyclovir-resistant colonies, 3 were identified as homologous recombinants with cointegration of the second loxP site by Southern blot analysis of BamHI-digested DNA, using a probe spanning the exon 5 as 5′ external probe (

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Katherine Drews-Elger et al. 2009

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