oncovirus การใช้

• The term oncovirus is now commonly used to describe a cancer-causing virus.
• A virus that can cause cancer is called an " oncovirus ".
• Prior to this'koala retrovirus'was used to refer to an unidentified oncovirus detected in cancer-affected koalas.
• The oncovirus can switch this pre-existing benign proto-oncogene on, turning it into a true oncogene that causes cancer.
• The Bittner virus is now known as the Mouse mammary tumor virus ( MMTV ), a retrovirus . ( see Timeline of Discovery 1936 under Oncovirus ).
• In 2002 the World Health Organizations International Agency for Research on Cancer estimated that 11.9 % of human cancers are caused by one of seven viruses ( see Oncovirus overview table ).
• OK well oncovirus says " The vast majority of human and animal viruses do not cause cancer, probably because of long-standing coevolution between the virus and its host ."
• While taking a course held at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in summer 1971, she mentioned her plan to grow mutants of the oncovirus, SV40, by molecular cloning of them in the human gut bacterium, E . coli.
• "Oncovirus " es ( viruses that can cause cancer ) include human papillomavirus ( cervical cancer ), Epstein Barr virus ( B-cell lymphoproliferative disease and nasopharyngeal carcinoma ), Kaposi's sarcoma herpesvirus ( Kaposi's sarcoma and primary effusion lymphomas ), hepatitis B and hepatitis C viruses ( hepatocellular carcinoma ) and human T-cell leukemia virus-1 ( T-cell leukemias ).