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Human endogenous retroviral K element encodes fusogenic activity in melanoma cells

INTRODUCTION AND HYPOTHESIS: Nuclear atypia with features of multi nuclei have been detected in human melanoma specimens. We found that the K type human endogenous retroviral element (HERV K) is expressed in such cells. Since cellular syncytia can form when cells are infected with retroviruses, we h...

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Autores principales: Huang, Gengming, Li, Zhongwu, Wan, Xiaohua, Wang, Yue, Dong, Jianli
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3622401/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23599687
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1477-3163.109032