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recombinant fowlpox-prostate specific antigen vaccine

A cancer vaccine consisting of a recombinant fowlpox virus encoding human prostate-specific antigen (PSA). Administration of this agent may stimulate a cytotoxic T cell response against PSA-expressing tumor cells. Fowlpox virus is an attractive vector because its genome is easy to manipulate and it is replication incompetent in mammalian cells.
Synonym:fowlpox-PSA vaccine
recombinant fowlpox-PSA vaccine
Abbreviation:rF-PSA
NSC code:694450
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