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simian virus 40

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simian virus 40 (SV40),
a vacuolating virus isolated from the kidney tissue of rhesus monkeys. SV40 produces malignancy in human and newborn hamster kidney cells and tumors when inoculated into newborn hamsters.


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4-SV40 virus Some studies have raised the possibility that infection with simian virus 40 (SV40) might increase the risk of developing mesothelioma.
What Are the Four Main Risk Factors for Mesothelioma? by Bello Kamorudeen / Health, general community
The virus, tentatively named Ryukyu virus 1 (RV1), caused apparent CPE on primary kidney cells derived from a Ryukyu flying fox and on our established bat kidney T1 (BKT1) cells, which were derived from the kidney of a horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus ferrumequinum) and transformed with expression plasmid DNA encoding the large T antigen of replication origin-defective simian virus 40.
Isolation of novel adenovirus from fruit bat (Pteropus dasymallus ... by Maeda, Ken; Hondo, Eiichi; Terakawa, Junpei; Kiso, Yasuo; Nakaichi, Numekazu; Endoh, Daiji; Sakai, K / Emerging Infectious Diseases
Among their topics are immune surveillance in cancer, Castelan's disease, naso-pharyngeal cancer diagnosis and management, viral hepatitis and hepato-carcinogenesis, simian virus 40 and human malignancy, and abnormalities of the coagulation system associated with HIV infection.
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