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Major amino acid sequence variants of viral vascular endothelial growth factor are functionally equivalent during Orf virus infection of sheep skin.
Virus research - 1 Sept 2007
Wise Lyn M, Savory Loreen J, Dryden Nicola H, Whelan Ellena M, Fleming Stephen B, Mercer Andrew A
Abstract excerpt
Orf virus infection causes a contagious pustular dermatitis characterized by extensive vascular changes that have been linked to a virally encoded vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF). The VEGF genes of different strains of orf virus can vary extensively in amino acid sequence. Functional an...
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