Prostate cancer leads to the discovery of a new human infectious retrovirus;Le cancer de la prostate conduit à la découverte d'un nouveau rétrovirus infectieux humain

Medecine/Sciences

Volumn 23, Issue 8-9, 2007, Pages 690-691

  Darlix, Jean Luc ^a   Sitbon, Marc ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; VIRUS RNA;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL METABOLISM; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; HUMAN T CELL LEUKEMIA VIRUS 1; NONHUMAN; NOTE; ONCOVIRINAE; PROSTATE CANCER; RETROVIRUS; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; XENOTROPIC MURINE LEUKEMIA RELATED VIRUS 1;

EID: 34548821579     PISSN: 07670974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/medsci/20072389690     Document Type: Note

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