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Search for a Human Breast Cancer Virus

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Some human milk contains particles physically identical to the mouse mammary tumour virus. Tumorigenesis in the mouse could serve as a model in the study of human breast cancer.

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    DAN H. MOORE, JESSE CHARNEY, BERNHARD KRAMARSKY, ETIENNE Y. LASFARGUES & NURUL H. SARKAR

  2. Michigan Cancer Foundation, Detroit, Michigan

    MICHAEL J. BRENNAN & JOHN H. BURROWS

  3. Tata Memorial Centre, Parel, Bombay, 12

    SATYAVATI M. SIRSAT, J. C. PAYMASTER & A. B. VAIDYA

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MOORE, D., CHARNEY, J., KRAMARSKY, B. et al. Search for a Human Breast Cancer Virus. Nature 229, 611–615 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1038/229611a0

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