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  • noun Plural form of adenovirus.

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Examples

  • The idea of turning to the virus itself follows years of frustration with prospective vaccines based on viruses other than HIV, such as adenoviruses that cause colds.

    New Scientist - Online News 2010

  • 'Seroswitching', using recombinant adenoviruses constructed from chimpanzees or rare human serotypes with limited exposure rates such as adenoviruses 35 and 11 can elicit potent immune responses that are minimally affected by pre-existing immunity

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles 2008

  • Health topics, from adenoviruses to yellow fever (basic facts), MMWR, press releases/current news, CDC data and statistics, and links to Web resources.

    Toxicology Web Pages 2009

  • Laboratory experiments showed the compound, administered as eye drops, has the capacity to stop and inhibit corneal cells from being infected by adenoviruses.

    New Eye Treatment: Drops to Pre-empt Pinkeye Outbreak Ann Lukits 2011

  • They constructed molecular structures called liposomes with numerous sialic-acid residues projecting from the surface that scoop up or aggregate adenoviruses, preventing them from binding to the receptor molecules.

    New Eye Treatment: Drops to Pre-empt Pinkeye Outbreak Ann Lukits 2011

  • Levy received considerable attention when his team announced it had created stents coated with adenoviruses to deliver gene therapy that improved the stents 'ability to keep blood vessels open.

    Cardiac Center Research 2010

  • Many of these newly named viruses have been causing coughs and runny noses for hundreds of years, alongside better-known viruses such as rhinoviruses and adenoviruses.

    Common Cold not the Common Cold Anymore | Impact Lab 2007

  • By reprogramming the skin cells using synthetically engineered adenoviruses, Church's team can transform the skin cells into many sorts of tissue — lungs, liver, heart.

    How the Personal Genome Project Could Unlock the Mysteries of Life 2008

  • The generally used viruses are retroviruses and adenoviruses.

    Gene Therapy Novel Therapeutic Branch of Modern Medicine 2008

  • More research is needed to test and confirm these results in humans, identify which human adenoviruses could cause obesity, and develop a vaccine, the researchers said.

    January 30th, 2006 2006

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