腫瘍ゥィルスとがんウイルス

摘要

The search for human cancer viruses triggered by the discovery of animal tumor viruses in the early twentieth century was unsuccessful until the end of the 1970s, although the concept of oncogenes and tumor-suppressor genes developed by the research on tumor viruses yielded substantial advances in understanding the etiology of cancer. Currently, the advent of molecular biology has led to the identification of seven human viruses as cancer viruses. The histories of tumor virology and the discoveries of human cancer viruses are discussed.