Xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus (XMRV) in prostate cancer cells likely represents a laboratory artifact

Oncotarget

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 358-362

  Yang, Jiawen ^a,b   Battacharya, Partho ^a,b   Singhal, Ruchi ^a   Kandel, Eugene S ^a  

^a ROSWELL PARK CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b City Honors School   (United States)

Author keywords

22Rv1; CWR22; Prostate cancer; XMRV

Indexed keywords

VIRUS DNA;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLOGY; DNA DETERMINATION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PROSTATE CANCER; VIRUS CELL INTERACTION; VIRUS LOAD; XENOTROPIC MULV RELATED VIRUS; ANIMAL; DISEASE MODEL; DRUG SCREENING; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE; NUDE MOUSE; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROSTATE TUMOR; RETROVIRUS INFECTION; STATISTICS; TUMOR CELL LINE; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; ARTIFACTS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DNA, VIRAL; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MICE, NUDE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RETROVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; XENOGRAFT MODEL ANTITUMOR ASSAYS; XENOTROPIC MURINE LEUKEMIA VIRUS-RELATED VIRUS;

EID: 80051699232     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19492553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18632/oncotarget.287     Document Type: Article

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