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01-05-2014 | Oral presentation
Regulated intratumoral expression of IL-12 as a basis for combination therapy in melanoma
Authors:
John J Nemunaitis, Gerald P Linette, Omid Hamid, Sanjiv S Agarwala, Alexander Starodub, Lei Sun, Francois Lebel, John A Barrett, Jonathan Lewis
Published in:
Journal of Translational Medicine
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Special Issue 1/2014
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Excerpt
Major obstacles for the development of immunotherapeutics are the ability of tumors to escape the immune system coupled with toxicity associated with systemic administration. To overcome these challenges, we have developed an adenoviral vector, Ad-RTS-IL-12 (AD), administered intratumorally under control of the RheoSwitch Therapeutic System® gene expression platform. Expression of IL-12 mRNA and IL-12 protein is tightly regulated by the oral administration of a small molecule activator ligand, veledimex (AL). …