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The early history of tumor virology: Rous, RIF, and RAV.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 30 Aug 2011
Rubin Harry
Abstract excerpt
One hundred years ago Peyton Rous recovered a virus, now known as the Rous sarcoma virus (RSV), from a chicken sarcoma, which reproduced all aspects of the tumor on injection into closely related chickens. There followed recovery of causal viruses of tumors of different morphology from 4 more of 60 chicken tumors. Subsequent studies in chickens of the biology of the first RSV isolated moved slowly for 45 y until...
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