Article
[Cancers, oncogenesis and oncogenes].
Medecine tropicale : revue du Corps de sante colonial - 1 Jan 2000
Meyer G, Nicoli J
Abstract excerpt
The carcinogenic transformation depends on the presence of particular genes, the oncogenes, which are, as a matter of fact, normal cellular genes. The oncogenic retro-viruses are mosaic genomes, transducing oncogenes in the infected cells. These genes are expressed: the product has an activity of protein kinase. The expression is increased in the transformed cells, because the oncogenes are either linked to...
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