Sentences with phrase «retrovirus family»

Feline leukaemia virus (FeLV) belongs to the retrovirus family of viruses, in a group known as oncornaviruses.

It is in the same retrovirus family as feline leukemia but they are separate diseases.

We have previously investigated the possibility that a member of the murine retrovirus family could be involved.

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Probably the most surprising aspect of what Mikovits said that day, however, had to do with the fact that the new virus appeared to be in the murine leukemia family, which belonged to the larger retrovirus genus known as gammaretroviruses.

Of individuals with recent - onset schizophrenia, 29 % exhibited signs of a particular family of retroviruses known as Human Endogenous Retrovirus W (HERV - W), compared with none of the control patients.

At an October presentation on her work at the International Association for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome / Myalgic Encephalomyelitis in Ottawa, she suggested that a related retrovirus in the same family as XMRV (gammaretroviruses) was actually behind chronic fatigue syndrome.

While retroviruses generally only infect dividing cells (because their access to the host genome is thought to rely on the breakdown of the nuclear envelope that occurs in mitosis [Roe et al., 1993]-RRB-, lentiviruses are a genus of the retroviral family that can infect non-dividing cells (possibly through the use of nuclear localization signals by the viral components [Bukrinsky et al., 1992]-RRB-, and thus, offer an advantage when transducing certain cell types that exhibit limited cell division (e.g., neurons).

Tracing the ancient origin of retroviruses - the family of viruses that includes HIV - is a big undertaking, partly because of the absence of fossils.

Retroviruses, a family of viruses that stably integrates into the host genome, are one of the most popular types of virus.

XMRV (xenotropic murine leukaemia virus - related virus) is a gamma - retrovirus, a genus of the retroviridae family [1].

The Feline Immunodeficiency Virus (FIV) is a retrovirus in the same family as human HIV, but it can not be transmitted to humans.

The retrovirus belongs to the lentivirus family which is probably the reason the disease is often referred to as Feline T - lymphotrophic lentivirus.