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Electrochemotherapy in Veterinary Oncology: From Rescue to First Line Therapy

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Electroporation is a delivery technique that is gaining popularity among the veterinary community due to its low cost, ease of application, and flexibility. It combines the administration of pharmaceutical compounds such as chemotherapy agents, antisense, and plasmids to the application of permeabilizing pulses. This chapter reviews the veterinary results obtained through the delivery of anticancer drugs (electrochemotherapy) and genes (electro-gene therapy).

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  1. SAFU Department, Regina Elena Cancer Institute, Rome, Italy

    Enrico P. Spugnini

  2. Department of Environmental, Biological and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technologies, Second University of Naples, Naples, Italy

    Alfonso Baldi

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  1. The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA

    Shulin Li

  2. The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA

    Jeffry Cutrera

  3. Old Dominion University Frank Reidy Ctr for Bioelectrics, Norfolk, Virginia, USA

    Richard Heller

  4. IPBS CNR, Toulouse, France

    Justin Teissie

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Spugnini, E.P., Baldi, A. (2014). Electrochemotherapy in Veterinary Oncology: From Rescue to First Line Therapy. In: Li, S., Cutrera, J., Heller, R., Teissie, J. (eds) Electroporation Protocols. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1121. Humana Press, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-9632-8_22

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