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Transformation and oncogenesis by jaagsiekte sheep retrovirus.
Current topics in microbiology and immunology - 1 Jan 2003
Fan H, Palmarini M, DeMartini J C
Abstract excerpt
Jaagsiekte sheep retrovirus (JSRV) is an exogenous retrovirus of sheep that induces a contagious lung cancer, ovine pulmonary adenocarcinoma (OPA). JSRV is a potent carcinogen in the experimental setting, inducing end-stage tumors at around 6 weeks of age when newborn lambs are inoculated intratracheally. Despite this rapid oncogenesis, inspection of the JSRV genome sequence does not reveal any obvious viral...
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