• Title of article

    Presence of simian virus 40 DNA sequences in human lymphomas

  • Author/Authors

    Narayan Shivapurkar، نويسنده , , Kenichi Harada، نويسنده , , Jyotsna Reddy، نويسنده , , Richard H Scheuermann، نويسنده , , Yin Xu، نويسنده , , Robert W McKenna، نويسنده , , Sara Milchgrub، نويسنده , , Steven H Kroft، نويسنده , , Ziding Feng، نويسنده , , Adi F Gazdar، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2002
  • Pages
    2
  • From page
    851
  • To page
    852
  • Abstract
    Simian virus 40 (SV40)—a potent oncogenic virus—has been associated previously with some types of human tumours, but not with lymphomas. We examined human tumours for the presence of specific SV40 DNA sequences by PCR and Southern blotting. Viral sequences were present in 29 (43%) of 68 non-Hodgkin lymphomas, and in three (9%) of 31 of Hodgkinʹs lymphomas. Viral sequences were detected at low frequencies (about 5%) in 235 epithelial tumours of adult and paediatric origin, and were absent in 40 control tissues. Our data suggest that SV40 might be a cofactor in the pathogenesis of non-Hodgkin lymphomas.
  • Journal title
    The Lancet
  • Serial Year
    2002
  • Journal title
    The Lancet
  • Record number

    555871