Designing and building oncolytic viruses

Maroun, Justin; Muñoz-Alía, Miguel; Ammayappan, Arun; Schulze, Autumn; Peng, Kah-Whye; Russell, Stephen

At least in theory, viruses can cross the endothelial lining of tumor neovessels by diffusion, active infection, or by trafficking inside of or on the surface of marrow-derived cells that are capable of diapedesis. Tumors generally have poor lymphatic drainage and can have leaky blood vessels with a wide range of pore sizes which helps to explain the phenomenon of enhanced permeability and retention of nanoparticles such as OVs in the tumor parenchyma [67] . In some tumors, the pores and fenestrations in tumor capillaries may be large enough to permit passive diffusion of viruses (depending on their size) but in many tumors review Maroun, Muñoz-Alía, Ammayappan, Schulze, Peng & Russell future science group the endothelium is sufficiently organized that this type of extravasation is simply not possible.