Epstein-Barr Virus and Human Cancer /

In this book, outstanding researchers from the US and Japan review recent progress in Epstein-Barr virus research. Most people carry EBV in memory B-cells in a latent stage. Many malignancies such as T/NK cell lymphoma, AIDS-associated B-cell lymphoma, gastric carcinoma and Hodgkin's disease ha...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Takada, Kenzo
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2001.
Series:Current topics in microbiology and immunology ; 258.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • EBV's plasmid Replicon: an enigma in cis and trans
  • Replication licensing of EBV oriP minicromosome
  • Epstein-Barr virus nuclear protein 2-induced activation of the EBV-replicative cycle in Akata cells: analysis by tetracycline-regulated expression
  • Two Epstein-Barr virus glycoprotein complexes
  • EBV replication enzymes
  • Pathology and molecular pathology of Epstein-Barr virus-associated gastric carcinoma
  • EBV and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma with special emphasis on pyothorax-associated lymphoma
  • AIDS lymphoma: its virological aspects
  • Role of Epstein-Barr virus in Burkitt's lymphoma
  • EBV regulates c-MYC, apoptosis, and tumorigenicity in Burkitt's Lymphoma
  • Epstein-Barr virus infection of human epithelial cells
  • Characterization of EBV-infected epithelial cell lines from gastric cancer bearing tissues
  • A new animal model for Epstein-Barr virus pathogenessis
  • Adoptive immunotherapy of EBV-associated malignancies with EBV-specific cytotoxic T cell lines.