Tumorigenic activity of merkel cell polyomavirus T antigens expressed in the stratified epithelium of mice.

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Published in Cancer Res on January 16, 2015

Authors

Megan E Spurgeon1, Jingwei Cheng2, Roderick T Bronson3, Paul F Lambert1, James A DeCaprio4

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Oncology, McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin.
2: Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts. Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
3: Department of Microbiology and Immunobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
4: Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts. Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. james_decaprio@dfci.harvard.edu.

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