Article
Epithelial tumours induced by a herpesvirus oncogene in transgenic mice.
Oncogene - 1 Jan 1994
Murphy C, Kretschmer C, Biesinger B, Beckers J, Jung J, Desrosiers R C, Müller-Hermelink H K, Fleckenstein B W, Rüther U
Abstract excerpt
To investigate the role of herpesviral genes in tumourigenesis, transgenic mice were generated expressing STP-C, a transformation associated protein of the lymphoma inducing herpesvirus saimiri. Epithelial tumours developed in the salivary gland, pancreas, thymus and liver of transgenic mice with...
Topics
- Animals
- Base Sequence
- Cell Transformation, Neoplastic
- Epithelium
- Herpesvirus 2, Saimiriine
- Lymphocyte Activation
- Mice
- Mice, Transgenic
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Neoplasms
- Oncogene Proteins, Viral
- Oncogenes
