@misc{10481/39551,
year = {2015},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10481/39551},
abstract = {Colorectal carcinoma is the third most prevalent cancer in the world. In the most advanced stages, the use of chemotherapy induces a poor response and is usually accompanied by other tissue damage. Significant progress based on suicide gene therapy has demonstrated that it may potentiate the classical cytotoxic effects in colorectal cancer. The inconvenience still rests with the targeting and the specificity efficiency. The main target of gene therapy is to achieve an effective vehicle to hand over therapeutic genes safely into specific cells. One possibility is the use of tumor-specific promoters overexpressed in cancers. They could induce a specific expression of therapeutic genes in a given tumor, increasing their localized activity. Several promoters have been assayed into direct suicide genes to cancer cells. This review discusses the current status of specific tumor-promoters and their great potential in colorectal carcinoma treatment.},
organization = {This research was funded by FEDER, Plan Nacional de Investigación Científica, Desarrollo e Innovación Tecnológica (I+D+I), and Instituto de Salud Carlos III (FIS), through projects PI11/01862 and PI11/0257.},
publisher = {Hindawi Publishing Corporation},
keywords = {Colorectal cancer},
keywords = {Chemotherapy},
keywords = {Gene therapy},
keywords = {Review},
keywords = {Colorectal carcinoma},
keywords = {Treatment},
title = {Tissue Specific Promoters in Colorectal Cancer},
doi = {10.1155/2015/390161},
author = {Rama Ballesteros, Ana Rosa and Aguilera, A. and Melguizo Alonso, Consolación and Caba Pérez, Octavio and Prados Salazar, José Carlos},
}