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Bacteria in cancer therapy: a novel experimental strategy

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Biomedical Science, March 2010
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Title
Bacteria in cancer therapy: a novel experimental strategy
Published in
Journal of Biomedical Science, March 2010
DOI 10.1186/1423-0127-17-21
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Authors

S Patyar, R Joshi, DS Prasad Byrav, A Prakash, B Medhi, BK Das

Abstract

Resistance to conventional anticancer therapies in patients with advanced solid tumors has prompted the need of alternative cancer therapies. Moreover, the success of novel cancer therapies depends on their selectivity for cancer cells with limited toxicity to normal tissues. Several decades after Coley's work a variety of natural and genetically modified non-pathogenic bacterial species are being explored as potential antitumor agents, either to provide direct tumoricidal effects or to deliver tumoricidal molecules. Live, attenuated or genetically modified non-pathogenic bacterial species are capable of multiplying selectively in tumors and inhibiting their growth. Due to their selectivity for tumor tissues, these bacteria and their spores also serve as ideal vectors for delivering therapeutic proteins to tumors. Bacterial toxins too have emerged as promising cancer treatment strategy. The most potential and promising strategy is bacteria based gene-directed enzyme prodrug therapy. Although it has shown successful results in vivo yet further investigation about the targeting mechanisms of the bacteria are required to make it a complete therapeutic approach in cancer treatment.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Germany 2 <1%
United States 2 <1%
Brazil 2 <1%
Portugal 1 <1%
France 1 <1%
South Africa 1 <1%
Malaysia 1 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
India 1 <1%
Other 2 <1%
Unknown 534 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 119 22%
Student > Master 93 17%
Student > Bachelor 85 16%
Researcher 61 11%
Student > Postgraduate 23 4%
Other 68 12%
Unknown 99 18%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 160 29%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 116 21%
Medicine and Dentistry 41 7%
Immunology and Microbiology 38 7%
Engineering 19 3%
Other 55 10%
Unknown 119 22%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 28. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 05 December 2023.
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#1,396,957
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Outputs from Journal of Biomedical Science
#55
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#4,531
of 103,301 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Biomedical Science
#1
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