%0 Journal Article %T Preclinical investigation of combined gene-mediated cytotoxic immunotherapy and immune checkpoint blockade in glioblastoma %A Abdul-Kareem Ahmed %A Agnieszka Bronisz %A Brian W Guzik %A Carmela Passaro %A David A Reardon %A E Antonio Chiocca %A Estuardo Aguilar-Cordova %A Franz Ricklefs %A Gordon J Freeman %A Hiroshi Nakashima %A Johanna K Kaufmann %A Kazue Kasai %A Laura K Aguilar %A Maria-Carmela Speranza %A Michal O Nowicki %A Patrick Y Wen %A Prisca Obi %A Ralph Weissleder %A Sarah R Klein %A Sean E Lawler %A Xandra Breakefield %J Archive of "Neuro-Oncology". %D 2018 %R 10.1093/neuonc/nox139 %X Combined immunotherapy approaches are promising cancer treatments. We evaluated anti¨Cprogrammed cell death protein 1 (PD-1) treatment combined with gene-mediated cytotoxic immunotherapy (GMCI) performed by intratumoral injection of a prodrug metabolizing nonreplicating adenovirus (AdV-tk), providing in situ chemotherapy and immune stimulation %K AdV-tk %K anti-PD1 %K glioblastoma %K immunotherapy %U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5777502/