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ReviewThe Journal of clinical investigation2010

KSHV and the pathogenesis of Kaposi sarcoma: listening to human biology and medicine.

Don Ganem

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Review in The Journal of clinical investigation, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 237 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

237 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Safety, Activity, and Long-term Outcomes of Pomalidomide in the Treatment of Kaposi Sarcoma among Individuals with or without HIV Infection.Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research · 2022
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  15. Animal models of human herpesvirus infection.Animal models and experimental medicine · 2025
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  19. Infectious etiologies of conjunctival tumors.Expert review of ophthalmology · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Don GanemDepartment of Medicine and Microbiology, University of California, 513 Parnassus Ave., San Francisco, CA 91413, USA. ganem@cgl.ucsf.edu

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The linkage of Kaposi sarcoma (KS) to infection by a novel human herpesvirus (Kaposi sarcoma-associated herpesvirus [KSHV]) is one of the great successes of contemporary biomedical research and was achieved by using advanced genomic technologies in a manner informed by a nuanced understanding of epidemiology and clinical investigation. Ongoing efforts to understand the molecular mechanisms by which KSHV infection predisposes to KS continue to be powerfully influenced by insights emanating from the clinic. Here, recent developments in KS pathogenesis are reviewed, with particular emphasis on clinical, pathologic, and molecular observations that highlight the many differences between this process and tumorigenesis by other oncogenic viruses.

Indexed as

Herpesvirus 8, HumanHumansSarcoma, KaposiViral TropismVirus LatencyVirus Replication

Identifiers

PMID20364091
PMCPMC2847423

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