The Search for the Human Breast Cancer Virus

Last update by Elisabeth Rieping 22.12.2004
Until today the search for a human breast cancer virus did not result in a reproducible method of isolation. Analysis of successful transmissions show that there might be an agent that can become transmitted cell-bound causing lymphoma in mice. It is not unlikely that the agent is a provirus harbored [...]

Comparison of the Molecular Biology of the Milk-Transmitted Retroviruses MMTV, BLV/HTLV-1 and Human Breast Cancer

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MMTV

BLV / HTLV

Human Breast Cancer

Induction of B-cell proliferation by MMTVThe superantigen orf (open reading frame) encoded for by the LTR sequences of MMTV is expressed on the surface of infected B-cells. [...]

The Search for the Human Mammary Tumor

by Elisabeth Rieping
Since it became known that the breast cancer of the mouse is transmitted by a virus, scientists had tried to discover a similar agent responsible for the disease in women.
Of cause, the standard procedure to find a transmissible agent, a transfection experiment to an other person for ethical reasons was not done.
But it [...]