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Title: Detection of the tax gene of HTLV-I in labial salivary glands from SS patients
Post by: ashler on October 30, 2014, 02:22:53 AM

"Our observations raise the possibility that a very low number of copies of the tax gene may be harbored innocuously in cells within the oral cavity in some healthy individuals, but that this gene may play a role as a co-factor in the development of SS or other diseases of oral cavity"

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10895371

Title: Re: Detection of the tax gene of HTLV-I in labial salivary glands from SS patients
Post by: ashler on October 30, 2014, 03:20:30 PM

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Human T Cell Leukemia Virus Type I Expression in Salivary Glands of Infected Patients
http://jid.oxfordjournals.org/content/179/2/497.full

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