Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Tending to cause or give rise to tumors: an oncogenic virus.
Wiktionary
- adj. tending to cause the formation of tumors
- adj. related to the formation of tumors
Etymologies
- onco- (“tumor”) + -genic (“producing”) (Wiktionary)
- Greek onkos, mass, tumor; see oncology + -genic. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“However, these discoveries were soon forgotten and only after a long eclipse was interest in oncogenic viruses revived in the fifties.”
“Proteins that when expressed out of context cause a cell to become cancerous are known as oncogenic proteins.”
“Apart from monoclonal antibodies, small molecule therapeutics such as oncogenic protein kinase inhibitors are attracting a vast amount of investigational attention.”
“Working on a small oncogenic DNA virus, polyoma, I could show there, with I. Macpherson, a new property of transformed cells, that of growing in soft agar.”
“In order to perfect my knowledge of oncogenic viruses, I moved from Carshalton to Glasgow where a new Institute of Virology had been recently inaugurated, headed by a remarkable virologist, Michael Stocker, and where many high-ranking visitors, among them Renato Dulbecco, were spending sabbatical years.”
“A great mystery remained at that time: that of the replication of the oncogenic RNA viruses, now known as retroviruses.”
“Back to France at the Institut Curie, I extended this finding to a number of cancer cells, transformed or not by oncogenic RNA or DNA viruses.”
“We showed that naked DNA alone carried all the oncogenic potential of the virus.”
“In 1969 – 70, the isolation of an RNA-polymerase associated with the viral particles of the vesicular stomatitis virus led to the idea that perhaps a key enzyme was also associated with the oncogenic RNA viruses.”
“Our genetic evidence from Drosophila and previous in vitro studies of mammalian Atonal homolog 1 (Atoh1, also called Math1 or Hath1) suggest an anti-oncogenic function for the Atonal group of proneural basic helix-loop-helix transcription factors.”
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