DNA Tumor Viruses / Edition 1

DNA Tumor Viruses / Edition 1

by Blossom Damania, James Pipas
ISBN-10:
0387689443
ISBN-13:
9780387689449
Pub. Date:
12/02/2008
Publisher:
Springer New York
ISBN-10:
0387689443
ISBN-13:
9780387689449
Pub. Date:
12/02/2008
Publisher:
Springer New York
DNA Tumor Viruses / Edition 1

DNA Tumor Viruses / Edition 1

by Blossom Damania, James Pipas
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Overview

DNA Tumor Viruses will focus on the DNA viruses in the human population that are associated with cancers.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780387689449
Publisher: Springer New York
Publication date: 12/02/2008
Edition description: 2009
Pages: 798
Sales rank: 725,524
Product dimensions: 6.40(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.70(d)

Table of Contents

Polyomavirus Life Cycle.- Transformation by Polyomaviruses.- Polyomaviruses and Disease.- The Life Cycle of Human Papillomaviruses.- Papillomavirus Transformation.- Papillomaviruses: Biology, Diversity, and Pathogenesis.- Adenovirus Transformation.- Overview of the Large DNA Tumor Viruses.- Epidemiology of EBV Infection.- EBV Diseases.- The Epstein–Barr Virus Genome.- Epstein–Barr Virus Transforming Proteins: Biologic Properties and Contribution to Oncogenesis.- The Epstein–Barr Virus Lytic Life Cycle.- Epstein–Barr Virus Latent Infection Nuclear Proteins: Genome Maintenance and Regulation of Lymphocyte Cell Growth and Survival.- Epstein–Barr Virus Entry.- EBV Immunotherapy.- KSHV Epidemiology and Subtype Evolution.- to Diseases Associated with Kaposi’s Sarcoma-Associated Herpesvirus.- Organization and Expression of the Kaposi’s Sarcoma-Associated Herpesvirus Genome.- KSHV Latent Genes and Their Regulation.- Regulation of Expression, Mode of Action and Downstream Targets of ORF50 Protein in KSHV Lytic Cycle Activation.- HHV-8/KSHV Proteins Involved in Signaling and Transformation.- KSHV Entry and Infection of Target Cells.- KSHV Immune Evasion.- Non-coding Regulatory RNAs of the DNA Tumor Viruses.- AIDS and Associated Malignancies.- Primate Models for Gammaherpesvirus-Associated Malignancies.- Murine Gammaherpesvirus 68 Infection of Mice: A Small Animal Model for Characterizing Basic Aspects of Gammaherpesvirus Pathogenesis.
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