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Rous sarcoma

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Rous sarcoma
n.
A sarcoma produced in chickens by an RNA-containing virus.

[After Francis Peyton Rous.]


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The first tumor-causing virus identified in any organism was the Rous sarcoma virus in chickens.
A further basis for the research was earlier reports of vitamin C's effects on other viruses, including Rous sarcoma virus, a member of the retrovirus family, which includes HIV.
They then isolated any strands that bound to Rous sarcoma virus, an avian virus of the same family as HIV, the AIDS virus.
 
 
 
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