A Virus Causes Cancer by Inducing Massive Chromosomal Instability through Cell Fusion

Current Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 431-437

  Duelli, Dominik M ^a   Padilla Nash, Hesed M ^b   Berman, David ^c   Murphy, Kathleen M ^c   Ried, Thomas ^b   Lazebnik, Yuri ^a  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

CELLCYCLE; DNA; MICROBIO

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CARCINOMA; CELL FUSION; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CHROMOSOMAL INSTABILITY; FEMALE; FIBROBLAST; GENETIC TRANSDUCTION; GENETICS; HUMAN; MASON PFIZER MONKEY VIRUS; METABOLISM; MOUSE; NEOPLASM; NUDE MOUSE; ONCOGENE; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; VIROLOGY; VIRUS CELL TRANSFORMATION;

ANIMALS; CARCINOMA; CELL FUSION; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; CELL TRANSFORMATION, VIRAL; CHROMOSOMAL INSTABILITY; FEMALE; FIBROBLASTS; HUMANS; MASON-PFIZER MONKEY VIRUS; MICE; MICE, NUDE; NEOPLASMS; ONCOGENES; TRANSDUCTION, GENETIC;

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EID: 33847391958     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2007.01.049     Document Type: Article

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