Published in Women's Health Weekly, October 12th, 2006
Study 1: Cervical cancer progression was linked to the inactivation of retinoblastoma (Rb) by E7 in the upregulation of AKT activity.
"Human papillomaviruses (HPV) are small DNA tumor viruses causally associated with cervical cancer. The early gene product E7 from high-risk HPV is considered the major transforming protein expressed by the virus," researchers in the United States reported.
"Although many functions have been described for E7 in disrupting normal cellular processes, we describe in this study a new cellular target in primary...
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