Expression of human endogenous gammaretroviral sequences in endometriosis and ovarian cancer

AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 551-557

  Hu, Lijuan ^a   Hornung, Daniela ^b   Kurek, Raffael ^c   Helen, Östman ^d   Blomberg, Jonas ^a   Bergqvist, Agneta ^e  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^d STOCKHOLM SÖDER HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^e DANDERYD HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ENDOMETRIUM; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GERM CELL; HERV E GENE; HERV H GENE; HERV I GENE; HERV W GENE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; OVARY; OVARY CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETROVIRUS; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUSES; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; GAMMARETROVIRUS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; OVARY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 33745684324     PISSN: 08892229     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/aid.2006.22.551     Document Type: Article

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