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Significance of the Co-existence of Friend Virus in “Friend Tumour”

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RECENTLY, the presence of tumour specific antigens in viral tumour cells of animals, which can be detected by the virus-neutralization and complement fixation reactions with immune serum against the causal virus, has come to be recognized1. Even when the presence of virus particles in the tumour cannot be proved, it is possible to surmise the presence of the virus genome in some form or other.

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  1. Laboratory of Pathology, Institute of Cancer Immunopathology, Hokkaido University School of Medicine,

    HIROSHI KOBAYASHI & TAKAO KODAMA

  2. Sapporo Municipal Hospital, Sapporo, Japan

    TETSUO ITOH

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KOBAYASHI, H., KODAMA, T. & ITOH, T. Significance of the Co-existence of Friend Virus in “Friend Tumour”. Nature 212, 939–940 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1038/212939b0

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