Retrovirus

...Adoptions. The Marley Fund works to battle feline retroviruses, including both feline leukemia and feline immunodeficiency viruses (FIV), through public service, promoting awareness and educating the public, Eubanks said. Campbell's own...

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...2/3 of CFS Patients; 10 Million in U.S. May Carry Virus Oct. 8, 2009 -- Some 10 million Americans may carry a recently discovered retrovirus now linked to chronic fatigue syndrome. The virus, xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus...

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...not by XMRV but by other viruses that it activates, she says. Meanwhile, retroviruses harbor pro-growth genes, and some cause the blood cancer leukemia in animals and people. XMRV - or xenotropic murine-leukemia-virus-related virus - itself...

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...like the HIV virus that causes Aids. As with all viruses, a retrovirus copies its genetic code into the DNA of its host but uses RNA -- a working form of DNA -- instead of using DNA to do so. Known formally as xenotropic murine...

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...into the DNA of early mouse embryos . Jaenisch injected retrovirus into early mouse embryos and showed that leukemia DNA sequences had integrated the mouse genome and also to its offspring. Jaenisch's mice were the first transgenic...

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...from men with that disease (and in only 6 percent of benign biopsies). It is a retrovirus, from the same notorious family that causes AIDS and leukemia in people. Mikovits and researchers from the National Cancer Institute and the...

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...found XMRV in 40% of cases in patients in the US with familial prostate cancer, research published in BioMed Central's open access journal, Retrovirology has found no link between the two conditions in a large study of German prostate cancer...

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...it is expected to affect about 200,000 men this year. The virus that the researchers found is a retrovirus called XMRV (Xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus), and if further research proves that it leads to prostate cancer, it...

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...01:14:13 PM MDT A retrovirus known to cause leukemia and cancerous tumors in animals has for the first time been found in malignant prostate cells -- raising the intriguing question of its role in prostate cancer. The retrovirus --...

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