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  • Title: [Humoral antibodies to the antigens related to the structural protein antigens of the mammary cancer virus (MTV) in breast cancer patients and in healthy donors].
    Author: Litvinov SV, Remennik IV, Kriukova IN.
    Journal: Biull Eksp Biol Med; 1984 May; 97(5):600-3. PubMed ID: 6326892.
    Abstract:
    Indirect radioimmunoassay and immunoperoxidase studies provided further evidence of human serum reactivity with murine mammary tumor virus (MMTV) structural proteins. Examination of over 400 human sera from breast cancer (BC) patients and controls has shown that the incidence of antibodies which react with MMTV structural proteins was significantly higher in BC patients (50%) than in patients with carcinomas of other organs (3%) or normal women (3%). However, the percentage of subjects immune to MMTV was higher in pregnant women (10%) as compared with normal subjects. All the women with BC of the first clinical stage had antibodies to MMTV. The percentage of immune donors was lower among patients with BC of the later stages (IIa, 90%, IIb, 76%, III, 27%, IV, 0%). Thus, a good agreement has been demonstrated between the first stages of BC and expression of antibodies to MMTV.
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