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SV40

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SV40 (sv-fôrt)
n.
A virus that causes cancers in monkeys and that is used widely in genetic and medical research.

SV40,
abbreviation for simian virus 40.


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This observation extends to expression vectors containing either TK or SV40 promoters, which were also potently transactivated by MAA in our experiments (data not shown).
Some injectable polio vaccines given between 1955 and 1963 were contaminated with SV40.
During the study, the researchers reported that two genes - astrocyte elevated gene-1, or AEG-1, and late SV40 factor, LSF, contribute to resistance of a commonly used chemotherapeutic drug called 5-fluorouracil, or 5-FU.
 
 
 
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