Mouse mammary tumor virus molecular biology and oncogenesis

Viruses

Volumn 2, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 2000-2012

  Ross, Susan R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; CIS; Intrinsic immunity; Milk borne virus; Superantigen

Indexed keywords

AROMATASE; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 10; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 3; INITIATION FACTOR 3; INITIATION FACTOR 3E; NOTCH4 RECEPTOR; PROTEIN RSPO2; PROTEIN RSPO3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS ENVELOPE PROTEIN; VIRUS PROTEIN; WNT1 PROTEIN; WNT10B PROTEIN; WNT3 PROTEIN;

B LYMPHOCYTE; BREAST BIOPSY; BREAST CANCER; BREAST MILK; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOASSAY; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOUSE MAMMARY TUMOR ONCOVIRUS; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; T LYMPHOCYTE; VIRUS CARCINOGENESIS; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS REPLICATION;

ANIMALS; CELL TRANSFORMATION, VIRAL; EPITHELIAL CELLS; LYMPHOCYTES; MAMMARY TUMOR VIRUS, MOUSE; RETROVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; TUMOR VIRUS INFECTIONS; VIRAL PROTEINS; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; MOUSE MAMMARY TUMOR VIRUS;

EID: 79952169958     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19994915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/v2092000     Document Type: Review

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