Revisiting a role for a mammary tumor retrovirus in human breast cancer

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 133, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1530-1535

  Salmons, Brian ^a   Gunzburg, Walter H ^b  

^a SG Austria   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

Author keywords

accessory factors; breast cancer; epidemiology; HAART; integration; MMTV; mouse mammary tumor virus; oncogene; virus; zoonosis

Indexed keywords

ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT; NUCLEOTIDE REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE INHIBITOR; PLACEBO; PROTEINASE INHIBITOR; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE INHIBITOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS DNA; VIRUS ENVELOPE PROTEIN;

BREAST CANCER; BREAST CARCINOGENESIS; CANCER INCIDENCE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; GENE ACTIVATION; HIGHLY ACTIVE ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN T CELL LYMPHOTROPIC VIRUS; LEUKEMIA; MAMMARY TUMOR RETROVIRUS; MOUSE MAMMARY TUMOR ONCOVIRUS; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROVIRUS; REVIEW; VIRUS CELL INTERACTION; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; XENOTROPIC VIRUS;

ACCESSORY FACTORS; BREAST CANCER; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HAART; INTEGRATION; MMTV; MOUSE MAMMARY TUMOR VIRUS; ONCOGENE; VIRUS; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMARY TUMOR VIRUS, MOUSE; MICE; RETROVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; TUMOR VIRUS INFECTIONS;

EID: 84880253906     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: 10970215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ijc.28210     Document Type: Review

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