Recombinant Fowlpox-Prostate Specific Antigen Vaccine

**Semantic type:** Immunologic Factor|Pharmacologic Substance|Virus

**Definition:** A cancer vaccine consisting of a recombinant fowlpox virus encoding human prostate-specific antigen (PSA). Administration of this agent may stimulate a cytotoxic T cell response against PSA-expressing tumor cells. Fowlpox virus is an attractive vector because its genome is easy to manipulate and it is replication incompetent in mammalian cells. (NCI04)

**Synonyms:** - Fowlpox-PSA Vaccine - Recombinant Fowlpox-PSA - Recombinant Fowlpox-PSA Vaccine - Recombinant Fowlpox-Prostate Specific Antigen - rF-PSA