Lymphoma
Epstein-Barr virus protein crucial to its role in blood cancers
Published in Blood Weekly, April 7th, 2005
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have identified a link between a critical cancer pathway and an Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV) protein known to be expressed in a number of EBV-associated cancers. Their findings demonstrate a new mechanism by which EBV transforms human B cells from the immune system into cancerous cells, which can lead to development of B-cell lymphomas.
Erle S. Robertson, PhD, associate professor of microbiology and director of Tumor Virology, with Penn's Abramson Cancer Center and MD/PhD student Jason Knight, published their results in Molecular and Cellular Biology.
Using human cell cultures...
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