Expression of Human Endogenous Retrovirus-W Including Syncytin-1 in Cutaneous T-Cell Lymphoma

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Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Maliniemi, Pilvi ^a   Vincendeau, Michelle ^b   Mayer, Jens ^c   Frank, Oliver ^d   Hahtola, Sonja ^a   Karenko, Leena ^a   Carlsson, Emilia ^a   Mallet, Francois ^e   Seifarth, Wolfgang ^d   Leib Mösch, Christine ^b,d   Ranki, Annamari ^a  

^a HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^e CENTRE HOSPITALIER LYON SUD   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MESSENGER RNA; SYNCYTIN 1 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS ENVELOPE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CANCER CELL; CHROMOSOME 6Q; CHROMOSOME 7Q; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUTANEOUS T CELL LYMPHOMA; DERMATITIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUS; ERVWE1 GENE; FEMALE; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE PRODUCT; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LICHEN PLANUS; LYMPHOCYTE; LYMPHOCYTE HOMING; LYMPHOMA CELL; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MYCOSIS FUNGOIDES; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENESIS; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PSORIASIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN DEFECT; STANDARD; VIRUS ACTIVATION; VIRUS EXPRESSION; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS TRANSCRIPTION;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUSES; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE PRODUCTS, ENV; GENETIC LOCI; HUMANS; LICHEN PLANUS; LYMPHOMA, T-CELL, CUTANEOUS; MALE; MYCOSIS FUNGOIDES; PREGNANCY PROTEINS; PSORIASIS; RNA, MESSENGER; SKIN; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84885068077     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0076281     Document Type: Article

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