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Sarcomas were induced in AKR mice by Schmidt-Ruppin strain of Rous sarcoma virus (RSV). Sarcoma cells were passagedin vivo andin vitro, and their virogenicities were examined. They did not produce any infectious RSV, but when sarcoma cell suspensions were inoculated into wing webs of chickens, sarcomas were induced with high frequencies. Moreover, it was verified by physical and biological methods that clonal line (K3b) of AKR sarcoma cells cultivatedin vitro, release murine leukemia virus. These results suggest that RSV and murine leukemia virus genomes coexist in the K3b cells.
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Kuwata, T., Okazaki, T. & Spahn, G.J. Virogenic properties of AKR mouse sarcoma cells induced by Rous sarcoma virus. Archiv f Virusforschung 41, 106–115 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01249935
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