Characterization of naturally Epstein–Barr virus-infected gastric carcinoma cell line YCCEL1

doi:10.1099/vir.0.045237-0

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Characterization of naturally Epstein–Barr virus-infected gastric carcinoma cell line YCCEL1

22 Nov 2012

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Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is a herpesvirus associated with lymphomas and carcinomas. While EBV-associated epithelial cell lines are good model systems to investigate the role of EBV in carcinoma, only a few cell lines are available as they are hard to acquire. A greater variety of naturally EBV-infected cell lines which are derived from tumour patients are needed to represent various features of EBVaGC. We...

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