The oncologist's debt to the chicken

Avian Pathology

Volumn 27, Issue SUPPL. 1, 1998, Pages

  Weiss, Robin A ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

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Indexed keywords

AVIAN LEUKOSIS ONCOVIRUS; AVIAN SARCOMA VIRUS; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS; GENE THERAPY; HERPES VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; ONCOGENE; RETROVIRAL VECTOR; VIRAL GENETICS; VIRUS VIRULENCE; XENOTRANSPLANTATION;

EID: 0031946059     PISSN: 03079457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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