Cigarette Smoking Promotes Infection of Cervical Cells by High-Risk Human Papillomaviruses, but not Subsequent E7 Oncoprotein Expression

Persistent cervical infection with high-risk human papillomaviruses (hrHPVs) is a necessary, but not sufficient, condition for the development of cervical cancer. Therefore, there are other co-factors facilitating the hrHPV carcinogenic process, one of which is smoking. To assess the effect of smoki...

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Main Authors: Kimon Chatzistamatiou, Theodoros Moysiadis, Dimos Vryzas, Ekaterini Chatzaki, Andreas M. Kaufmann, Isabel Koch, Erwin Soutschek, Oliver Boecher, Athena Tsertanidou, Nikolaos Maglaveras, Pidder Jansen-Duerr, Theodoros Agorastos
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2018-01-01
Series:International Journal of Molecular Sciences
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/19/2/422