Human endogenous retrovirus expression and reverse transcriptase activity in the T47D mammary carcinoma cell line

Journal of Virology

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 2654-2657

  Patience, Clive ^a   Simpson, Guy R ^a   Colletta, Anthony A ^a   Welch, Hazel M ^a   Weiss, Robin A ^a   Boyd, Mark T ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBONUCLEASE H; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CARCINOMA CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROVIRUS; VIRUS CARCINOGENESIS; VIRUS EXPRESSION; VIRUS PARTICLE;

EID: 0029918146     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jvi.70.4.2654-2657.1996     Document Type: Article

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