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Rous, n.2 Biol.|raʊs|
The name of Francis Peyton Rous (1879–1970), U.S. physician, used attrib. to designate (a) a type of virus-induced sarcoma which afflicts birds, described by him in 1910 (Jrnl. Exper. Med. XII. 696); (b) an RNA virus which causes such sarcomata (its existence was suggested by Rous et al. in 1912 (Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 20 Nov. 1794/1)). So ˈrousvirus.
1911Jrnl. Exper. Med. XIII. 389 We succeeded..in cultivating malignant tissues such as the Rous chicken sarcoma. 1925W. E. Gye in Lancet 18 July 109/2 It has now been shown that Rous tumour No. 1 is caused by a virus which has been cultivated. 1931Brit. Jrnl. Exper. Path. XII. 127 To decide whether the fragility of the Rous virus were due to its inability to resist oxidation, or whether a proteolysis were the inactivating cause. 1945Duran-Reynals & Shrigley in Res. Conf. on Cancer (Amer. Assoc. Adv. Sci.) 13/1 When the Rous tumor virus is inoculated into ducks two sets of lesions occur. 1945H. S. N. Greene in Ibid. 19/1 Dr Shrigley has succeeded in transplanting the Rous sarcoma in the anterior chambers of guinea pigs' eyes, and this is the first instance in which a virus-induced tumor has been proved to be a cancer. 1961R. D. Baker Essent. Path. xiii. 311 Carcinogenic viruses are known to produce the Rous sarcoma in chickens and the Shope papilloma of rabbits. 1961Lancet 5 Aug. 301/1 The ability of cells infected with Rous-sarcoma virus to multiply has been demonstrated, but such chronically infected tumour cells cannot be considered to have recovered. 1972Sci. Amer. Jan. 26/1 The rousviruses do not transfer information from RNA to RNA, as other RNA viruses do. 1977Nature 15 Dec. 631 The genome of Rous sarcoma virus (RSV) is a 30–40S RNA of 10,000 nucleotides. |