|
I don't know off-hand I usually glance over the methods part of
the articles I have read quickly as I am a vegetarian and hate to think about what they are doing to the poor mice. The articles I have read are about MMTV- induced purposely in lab animals--haven't a clue about how it occurs in nature(if anyone does).
Will try to post the "methods" section of an article having to do with when/how they induced the MMTV (they do it in very abnormal lab mice--usually they are immune-deficient, sometimes diabetic, etc) so it is far from "physiologic" or how it might happen in real life.
Even if I provide you with a description pf how they do it and how long it takes to develop the tumors and how long they wait to "sacrifice" the mice , I don't know how you would interpret that with respect to how it might occur in people. Even though what appears to be the human version of the virus shares so many genes (high % homology), even one different version of one gene can change how a tumor behaves.
Hope this helped!
|