Jaagsiekte Sheep Retrovirus and Lung Cancer /

Retroviruses have been of great importance to biomedical science for the past half century. Initially, studies on oncogenic animal retroviruses provided important insights into molecular processes in carcinogenesis - most notably the existence and mechanisms of action of oncogenes and proto-oncogene...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fan, Hong
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2003.
Series:Current topics in microbiology and immunology ; 275.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • A history of ovine pulmonary adenocarcinoma (jaagsiekte) and experiments leading to the deduction of the JSRV nucleotide sequence
  • Pathology of ovine pulmonary adenocarcinoma
  • Natural history of JSRV in sheep
  • Molecular biology of jaagsiekte sheep retrovirus (JSRV)
  • Endogenous retroviruses related to jaagsiekte sheep retrovirus
  • Transformation and oncogenesis by jaagsiekte sheep retrovirus
  • Identification of Hyal2 as the cell-surface receptor for JSRV and ONAV
  • Enzootic nasal adenocarcinoma of sheep and goats
  • Pathology of human bronchiolo-alveolar carcinoma and its relationship to the ovine disease
  • Subject index.