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polyoma

NOUN
  1. a virus the can initiate various kinds of tumors in mice

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  • One came up this year only – the so-called Merkel cell carcinoma polyoma virus, which – the virus is called Merkel cell polyoma virus – which has been found in Merkel cell carcinomas, and every evidence at this stage points to the fact that this is indeed aetiologically involved. Harald zur Hausen - Interview
  • Polyoma viruses previously have been named after the initials of the patient in whom they were first discovered.
  • In collaboration with my colleague Jörg Schlehofer, we were also able to demonstrate that herpes simplex virus, but also other herpes -, adeno -, and vaccinia virus infections of polyoma - or papillomavirus DNA harbouring cells, resulted in amplification of the DNA of the latter. Harald zur Hausen - Autobiography
  • Within a short time polyoma virus became the main interest of my laboratory, to be joined, a few years later by SV40, another papovavirus. Renato Dulbecco - Nobel Lecture
  • Because of these widely various neoplastic effects it has been aptly termed the polyoma virus. Peyton Rous - Nobel Lecture
  • Last May, David Wang of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis discovered the WU virus, a new type of polyoma virus that may be causing respiratory infections and perhaps other problems. Common Cold not the Common Cold Anymore | Impact Lab
  • In contrast to polyomaviruses, which by electron microscopy are round, the adenoviral particles are hexagonal and are twice as large as the polyomavirus.
  • JC virus, a human neurotropic polyomavirus, is the etiologic infectious agent of this disease.
  • Working on a small oncogenic DNA virus, polyoma, I could show there, with I. Macpherson, a new property of transformed cells, that of growing in soft agar. Luc Montagnier - Autobiography
  • Using this technique, it was easy to detect the transforming capacity of polyoma virus and its DNA. Luc Montagnier - Autobiography
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