Article
Immortalization by human papillomavirus type 16 alters retinoid regulation of human ectocervical epithelial cell differentiation.
Cancer research - 1 Aug 1991
Agarwal C, Rorke E A, Irwin J C, Eckert R L
Abstract excerpt
Human cervical cells are a primary site of papillomavirus infection and 90% of all cervical tumors are positive for human papillomavirus (HPV) DNA. Over one-half million cases of HPV-associated cervical, vulvar, and penile cancers are reported per year. Yet, in spite of the magnitude of this prob...
Topics
- Cell Differentiation
- Cell Transformation, Viral
- Cells, Cultured
- Cervix Uteri
- Epithelial Cells
- Epithelium
- Female
- Humans
- Keratins
- Papillomaviridae
- Phenotype
- RNA, Messenger
- Retinoids
- Transcription, Genetic
- Transfection
- Tretinoin
- Uterine Cervical Neoplasms
- Virus Replication
