Dr. Charles J Link MD
Hematologist-Oncologist | Hematology & Oncology
1221 Pleasant St Suite 100 Medical On Des Moines IA, 50309About
Dr. Charles Link is a hematologist oncologist practicing in Des Moines, IA. Dr. Link specializes in the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of blood diseases such as anemia, hemophilia, sickle-cell disease, leukemia and lymphoma. Hematologist Oncologists are also trained in the study of cancer and its attack on other organs.
Education and Training
Stanford University School of Medicine 1985
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Antitumor effects on human melanoma xenografts of an amplicon vector transducing the herpes thymidine kinase gene followed by ganciclovir.
- The rat sodium iodide symporter gene permits more effective radioisotope concentration than the human sodium iodide symporter gene in human and rodent cancer cells.
- Herpes simplex amplicon vectors.
- Immunity to the alpha(1,3)galactosyl epitope provides protection in mice challenged with colon cancer cells expressing alpha(1,3)galactosyl-transferase: a novel suicide gene for cancer gene therapy.
- Desferrioxamine treatment increases the genomic stability of Ataxia-telangiectasia cells.
- Effective suppression of class I major histocompatibility complex expression by the US11 or ICP47 genes can be limited by cell type or interferon-gamma exposure.
- Iron chelators increase the resistance of Ataxia telangeictasia cells to oxidative stress.
- Pharmacological manipulation of ataxia-telangiectasia kinase activity as a treatment for Parkinson's disease.
- Complete protection against melanoma in absence of autoimmune depigmentation after rejection of melanoma cells expressing alpha(1,3)galactosyl epitopes.
- Effective treatment of preexisting melanoma with whole cell vaccines expressing alpha(1,3)-galactosyl epitopes.
- Co-expression of alpha(1,3)galactosyltransferase and Bacillus thuringiensis PIPLC enhances hyperacute rejection of tumor cells.
- High-throughput fluorescent screening of transgenic animals: phenotyping and haplotyping.
- Allogeneic melanoma vaccine expressing alphaGal epitopes induces antitumor immunity to autologous antigens in mice without signs of toxicity.
- A replication-incompetent Rift Valley fever vaccine: chimeric virus-like particles protect mice and rats against lethal challenge.
- Novel suspension cell-based vaccine production systems for Rift Valley fever virus-like particles.
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