A mathematical approach to virus therapy of glioblastomas

It is widely believed that the treatment of glioblastomas (GBM) could benefit from oncolytic virus therapy. Clinical research has shown that Vesicular Stomatitis Virus (VSV) has strong oncolytic properties. In addition, mathematical models of virus treatment of tumors have been developed in recent y...

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Autores: López de Rioja, Víctor|||0000-0003-4485-0616, Isern, N., Fort, J.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2016
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/378186
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/378186
https://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13062-015-0100-7
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Glioblastoma
Biophysics
Oncolytic virus
VSV
Front propagation speed
Reaction-diffusion equations
Biofísica
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Física
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Sumario:It is widely believed that the treatment of glioblastomas (GBM) could benefit from oncolytic virus therapy. Clinical research has shown that Vesicular Stomatitis Virus (VSV) has strong oncolytic properties. In addition, mathematical models of virus treatment of tumors have been developed in recent years. Some experiments in vitro and in vivo have been done and shown promising results, but have been never compared quantitatively with mathematical models. We use in vitro data of this virus applied to glioblastoma.