%0 Journal Article %T A Potential Therapy Using Engineered Stem Cells Prevented Malignant Melanoma in Cellular and Xenograft Mouse Models %A Jae-Rim Heo %A Kyung-A Hwang %A Kyung-Chul Choi %A Seung U. Kim %J Archive of "Cancer Research and Treatment : Official Journal of Korean Cancer Association". %D 2019 %R 10.4143/crt.2018.364 %X In the present study, human neural stem cells (hNSCs) with tumor-tropic behavior were used as drug delivery vehicle to selectively target melanoma. A hNSC line (HB1.F3) was transduced into two types: one expressed only the cytosine deaminase (CD) gene (HB1.F3. CD) and the other expressed both CD and human interferon-¦Â (IFN-¦Â) genes (HB1.F3.CD. IFN-¦Â) %K Melanoma %K Human neural stem cells %K Flucytosine %K Cytosine deaminase %K Human interferon-¦Â %U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6473263/