Mouse mammary tumor virus
id:
mouse-mammary-tumor-virus-189-17315103
title:
Mouse mammary tumor virus
text:
Mouse mammary tumor virus (MMTV) is a milk-transmitted retrovirus like the HTL viruses, HI viruses, and BLV. It belongs to the genus Betaretrovirus. MMTV was formerly known as Bittner virus, and previously the "milk factor", referring to the extra-chromosomal vertical transmission of murine breast cancer by adoptive nursing, demonstrated in 1936, by John Joseph Bittner while working at the Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine. Bittner established the theory that a cancerous agent, or "milk fa
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Species of virus
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mouse_mammary_tumor_virus
date created:
2004-07-14T17:45:52Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T14:58:15Z
main entity:
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