Folia Biologica
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Fol. Biol. 2000, 46, 191-193

https://doi.org/10.14712/fb2000046050191

Intratumoral IL-2 Gene Transfer Improves the Therapeutic Efficacy of IL-12 but Not IL-18

V. Sobota, Jan Bubeník, J. Šímová, T. Jandlová

Institute of Molecular Genetics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic

Received August 2000
Accepted September 2000

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