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...
Topics
- Animals
- Carcinogens
- Cell Transformation, Neoplastic
- Cell Transformation, Viral
- Gene Expression Regulation
- Genes
- Genes, Viral
- Humans
- Mutation
- Neoplasms
- Neoplasms, Experimental
- Oncogenes
- Oncogenic Viruses
