Review on the relationship between human polyomaviruses-associated tumors and host immune system

Clinical and Developmental Immunology

Volumn 2012, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Delbue, Serena ^a   Comar, Manola ^b,c   Ferrante, Pasquale ^d,e  

^a Health Science Foundation Ettore Sansavini   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^c INSTITUTE FOR MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH IRCCS BURLO GAROFOLO   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^e Istituto Clinico Citt Studi   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS DNA; VIRUS PROTEIN; VIRUS RNA;

ADRENAL CORTEX ADENOMA; ADRENAL MEDULLA TUMOR; ASTROCYTOMA; BK VIRUS; BLADDER TUMOR; BONE TUMOR; BREAST CANCER; COLORECTAL CARCINOMA; EPENDYMOMA; ESOPHAGUS CARCINOMA; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN POLYOMAVIRUS 6; HUMAN POLYOMAVIRUS 7; HUMAN POLYOMAVIRUS 9; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOBIOLOGY; IMMUNOTHERAPY; INSULINOMA; JC VIRUS; KAPOSI SARCOMA; KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE POLYOMAVIRUS; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; LEUKEMIA; LUNG CANCER; LYMPHOMA; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; MERKEL CELL POLYOMAVIRUS; MERKEL CELL TUMOR; MESOTHELIOMA; NONHUMAN; OLIGODENDROGLIOMA; POLYOMA VIRUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; REVIEW; SEROPREVALENCE; STOMACH CANCER; TONGUE CARCINOMA; TRICHODYSPLASIA SPINULOSUM POLYOMAVIRUS; TUMOR; URINARY TRACT TUMOR; WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY POLYOMAVIRUS; ANIMAL; DISEASE MODEL; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; IMMUNOLOGY; MOUSE; NEOPLASM; PATHOGENICITY; POLYOMAVIRUS INFECTION; RHESUS MONKEY; SIMIAN VIRUS 40; VIROLOGY; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS INFECTION;

ANIMALS; BK VIRUS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GENOME, VIRAL; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; IMMUNE SYSTEM; JC VIRUS; MACACA MULATTA; MICE; NEOPLASMS; POLYOMAVIRUS INFECTIONS; SIMIAN VIRUS 40; TUMOR VIRUS INFECTIONS;

EID: 84859700944     PISSN: 17402522     EISSN: 17402530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2012/542092     Document Type: Review

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