"Retroviruses, Simian" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Classes of retroviruses for which monkeys or apes are hosts. Those isolated from the West African green monkey and the Asian rhesus macaque monkey are of particular interest because of their similarities to viruses causing cancer and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) in humans.
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D015301
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B04.613.807.805 B04.820.650.805
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| 2018 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Retroviruses, Simian" by people in Profiles.
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Transient Immune Activation in BCG-Vaccinated Infant Rhesus Macaques Is Not Sufficient to Influence Oral Simian Immunodeficiency Virus Infection. J Infect Dis. 2020 06 16; 222(1):44-53.
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Comprehensive phylogenomic analysis reveals a novel cluster of simian endogenous retroviral sequences in Colobinae monkeys. Am J Primatol. 2018 07; 80(7):e22882.
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Novel endogenous simian retroviral integrations in Vero cells: implications for quality control of a human vaccine cell substrate. Sci Rep. 2018 01 12; 8(1):644.
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Structure, stability and function of RNA pseudoknots involved in stimulating ribosomal frameshifting. J Mol Biol. 2000 Apr 28; 298(2):167-85.