Antibody reacting with the murine mammary tumor virus in the serum of patients with breast carcinoma: A possible serological detection method for breast carcinoma

Cancer Research

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 1983, Pages 239-244

  Wells, Samuel A ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS ANTIBODY; VIRUS ANTIGEN;

BREAST; BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSIS; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOUSE MAMMARY TUMOR ONCOVIRUS;

AGGLUTINATION; ANIMAL; ANTIBODIES, NEOPLASM; BREAST NEOPLASMS; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGIC TECHNIQUES; MAMMARY TUMOR VIRUS, MOUSE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0020681170     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: 15387445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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