mouse mammary tumor virus
- mouse mammary tumor virus
- the sole member of the mammalian type B retroviruses, which induces mammary adenocarcinoma in certain strains of mice, usually transmitted from mother to offspring through the milk; viral expression and carcinogenesis are influenced by estrogen stimulation. Called also Bittner v.
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