Respiratory viral infections awaken metastatic breast cancer cells in lungs
Mouse strains, influenza infection and antibody treatments Transgenic mouse models of breast cancer, using mouse mammary tumour virus (MMTV) long terminal repeats, are widely used. In brief, MMTV-PyMT and MMTV-erbB2/neu/Her2 (MMTV-Her2) mice express the oncogenes polyoma virus middle T antigen (PyMT) and rat Erbb2 (encoding HER2), respectively, upstream of the MMTV promoter, which confers…













