Open AccessOncolytic Viruses
Author(s) -
Nanhai G. Chen,
Aladar A. Szalay,
R. Mark L. Buller,
Ulrich M. Lauer
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
advances in virology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.956
H-Index - 25
eISSN - 1687-8647
pISSN - 1687-8639
DOI - 10.1155/2012/320206
Subject(s) - oncolytic virus , medicine , virology , computational biology , biology , virus
It may seem unlikely that viruses could a key tool for fighting cancer. Viruses are known for causing human suffering and death – from the common cold to HIV and influenza. Because viruses are so good at invading and taking over cells they have great potential as cancer killers. The following section gives some background on cancer killing (oncolytic; onco=tumor lysis=breaking down) viruses and describes some of the most promising ones.
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