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M L Cleary, M A Epstein, S Finerty, R F Dorfman, G W Bornkamm, J K Kirkwood, A J Morgan, J Sklar.
Abstract
Cotton-top tamarins were inoculated with sufficient Epstein-Barr virus to induce multiple tumors in each animal within 14 to 21 days. The tumors consisted of large-cell lymphomas that contained multiple copies of the Epstein-Barr virus genome and generated Epstein-Barr virus-carrying cell lines showing no detectable consistent chromosomal abnormality. Hybridization of tumor DNA with immunoglobulin gene probes revealed that each lymphoma was oligo- or monoclonal in origin and that individual tumors from the same animal arose from different B-cell clones. Thus the virus induced multiple transformation events in tamarins in vivo to cause malignant tumors resembling the Epstein-Barr virus-associated lymphomas of patients with organ transplants.Entities:
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Year: 1985 PMID: 2986287 DOI: 10.1126/science.2986287
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Science ISSN: 0036-8075 Impact factor: 47.728