XMRV and prostate cancerg - A 'final' perspective

Nature Reviews Urology

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 111-118

  Sfanos, Karen S ^a   Aloia, Amanda L ^b   De Marzo, Angelo M ^c   Rein, Alan ^b  

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

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; VIRUS DNA;

CANCER TRANSPLANTATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GERM LINE; HUMAN; LABORATORY; MURINE LEUKEMIA VIRUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; REVIEW; TUMOR XENOGRAFT; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS RECOMBINANT; XENOTROPIC MURINE LEUKEMIA VIRUS; ANIMAL; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; PROSTATE TUMOR; VIROLOGY; XENOTROPIC MULV RELATED VIRUS;

ANIMALS; DNA, VIRAL; HUMANS; MALE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; XENOTROPIC MURINE LEUKEMIA VIRUS-RELATED VIRUS;

EID: 84857035507     PISSN: 17594812     EISSN: 17594820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrurol.2011.225     Document Type: Review

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