Definitions
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- adjective Tending to cause or give rise to tumors.
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- adjective tending to cause the formation of
tumors - adjective related to the formation of tumors
Etymologies
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Examples
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However, these discoveries were soon forgotten and only after a long eclipse was interest in oncogenic viruses revived in the fifties.
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Proteins that when expressed out of context cause a cell to become cancerous are known as oncogenic proteins.
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Apart from monoclonal antibodies, small molecule therapeutics such as oncogenic protein kinase inhibitors are attracting a vast amount of investigational attention.
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In 1969 – 70, the isolation of an RNA-polymerase associated with the viral particles of the vesicular stomatitis virus led to the idea that perhaps a key enzyme was also associated with the oncogenic RNA viruses.
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We showed that naked DNA alone carried all the oncogenic potential of the virus.
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Working on a small oncogenic DNA virus, polyoma, I could show there, with I. Macpherson, a new property of transformed cells, that of growing in soft agar.
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In order to perfect my knowledge of oncogenic viruses, I moved from Carshalton to Glasgow where a new Institute of Virology had been recently inaugurated, headed by a remarkable virologist, Michael Stocker, and where many high-ranking visitors, among them Renato Dulbecco, were spending sabbatical years.
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Our genetic evidence from Drosophila and previous in vitro studies of mammalian Atonal homolog 1 (Atoh1, also called Math1 or Hath1) suggest an anti-oncogenic function for the Atonal group of proneural basic helix-loop-helix transcription factors.
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A great mystery remained at that time: that of the replication of the oncogenic RNA viruses, now known as retroviruses.
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Back to France at the Institut Curie, I extended this finding to a number of cancer cells, transformed or not by oncogenic RNA or DNA viruses.
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