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Role of Rb-dependent and Rb-independent functions of papillomavirus E7 oncogene in head and neck cancer.
Cancer research - 15 Dec 2007
Strati Katerina, Lambert Paul F
Abstract excerpt
Infection with high-risk human papillomaviruses (HPV) and in particular the expression of the viral proteins E6 and E7 have been associated with the etiology of a subset of head and neck squamous cell cancer (HNSCC). However, the individual consequences of E6 and E7 expression in an in vivo model have not been examined in these tissues. We have used transgenes that direct expression of the HPV16 E6 and E7...
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