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Published in final edited form as: Expert Rev Anticancer Ther. 2009 May;9(5):597–612. doi: 10.1586/era.09.22

Box 2.

Summary of mesenchymal stem cell therapies for gliomas.

Chemotherapeutic vehicles
• HSV-thymidine kinase	[172]
Viral delivery vehicles
• Conditionally replicating adenovirus	[173]
Immunotherapeutic vehicles
• IL-2	[34,174,175]
• IL-18	[176]
• IL-23	[124]
• TRAIL	[177]
• IFN-α	[178]
• IFN-β	[36]

HSV: Herpes simplex virus; TRAIL: TNF-related apoptosis-inducing ligand.