MEDRADSC 3U03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Tumor Suppressor Gene, Oncogene, Chromosome
4 Jan 2017
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Rat infectious cancer transferred from the face. Koch"s postulates (to prove that given disease results from a specific pathogen) Pathogen must be detected in diseased tissue. Pathogen must be isolated from the host and grown in the lab. Lab grown pathogen must cause the disease when administered to a healthy organism. Pathogen isolated grown the newly infected host must be the same as the original pathogen. Happens among young population, in equatorial africa. Overlapped area with malaria, infected between all those children. Malarial parasite induces b-cell proliferation, weakens the immune system. Epstein-barr virus results in nasopharyngeal cancer, b-cell lymphomas in immunosuppressed individuals: mono or lymphoma. Around 100 types, hpv 6, 11,16, 18. If it covers up 16, 18, it covers up most of the types. Areas that lack of good drinking water. Rna virus, can do the same thing. Bacteria that results in the infectious form of cancer.
