Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of a group of very small viruses, including the enteroviruses and the rhinoviruses, that infect animals and consist of RNA surrounded by an icosahedral protein shell.
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- noun Any of a group of
RNA viruses , of the familyPicornaviridae , many of which arepathogenic
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- noun a group of single-strand RNA viruses with a protein coat
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The disease does not spread to humans but there is an identically named human illness that is caused by another member of the picornavirus family.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed ANDRÉ PICARD 2011
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By this translation enhancement such an internal picornavirus IRES reduces possible effects of mutations or inhibitors of translation.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Michel V. L�vesque et al. 2010
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We used retrovirus-mediated transduction to introduce FoxP3 or FoxP3 with anti-apoptotic Bcl-2 family molecule Bcl-xL linked by a 2A picornavirus self-cleaving peptide into CD4+ T cells to generate Tregs.
BioMed Central - Latest articles Rizwanul Haque 2010
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Surprisingly, the polyhedrin subunits are more similar to picornavirus coat proteins than to the polyhedrin of cytoplasmic polyhedrosis virus (CPV).
Naturejobs - All Jobs Xiaoyun Ji 2009
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This is similar to a recent study of picornavirus inactivation by UV, showing that at doses of approximately 1.25 J / cm
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Furthermore, we recently demonstrated CPMV bioavailability and systemic tissue trafficking in mouse CPMV is a comovirus in the picornavirus superfamily, and infects the cowpea plant
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