ADENOVIRUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does adenovirus mean? 

• ADENOVIRUS (noun)
  The noun ADENOVIRUS has 1 sense:

1. any of a group of viruses including those that in humans cause upper respiratory infections or infectious pinkeye

  Familiarity information: ADENOVIRUS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ADENOVIRUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of a group of viruses including those that in humans cause upper respiratory infections or infectious pinkeye

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("adenovirus" is a kind of...):

animal virus (an animal pathogen that is a virus)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "adenovirus"):

parainfluenza virus (a virus that causes upper respiratory infection (including the common cold and bronchiolitis); most often in children)

 Context examples 

A cell-based cancer vaccine composed of autologous dendritic cells (DCs) transduced with a replication-deficient adenovirus vector encoding HER-2 with potential antineoplastic activity.

(Adenovirus HER2-Transduced Autologous Dendritic Cell Vaccine, NCI Thesaurus)

A gene viral vector complex comprised of a replication-defective adenovirus and a herpes simplex virus thymidine kinase gene that activates ganciclovir, causing inhibition of DNA synthesis and apoptosis.

(Adenovirus RSV-TK, NCI Thesaurus)

Upon intratumoral administration, the adenovirus infects and replicates in tumor cells.

(Adenovirus Encoding Recombinant Human Endostatin, NCI Thesaurus)

Adenovirus-36 is found four times more often among the obese than in patients of a healthy weight.

(Scientists Find Virus Linked to Weight Gain, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

A replication-deficient, recombinant adenovirus encoding human aquaporin-1 with potential membrane water channel activity.

(Adenovirus Encoding Human Aquaporin-1, NCI Thesaurus)

A replication-defective oncolytic adenovirus, encoding rat Her-2/neu (ErbB-2), with potential antineoplastic activity.

(Adenovirus Encoding Rat HER-2/neu, NCI Thesaurus)

A class of viral vaccines based on adenovirus genome which was engineered to harbor gene of therapeutic interest, and were to be used in vaccination against cancers.

(Adenovirus Vaccine, NCI Thesaurus)

An adenovirus serotype 5 strain, selectively replication competent in cells defective in the Rb/p16 tumor suppressor pathway, with potential oncolytic activity.

(Oncolytic Ad5-Delta 24RGD, NCI Thesaurus)

Upon infusion of the oncolytic adenovirus ICOVIR5-infected autologous MSCs, these cells target the adenovirus to tumors.

(Oncolytic Adenovirus ICOVIR5-infected Autologous Mesenchymal Stem Cells, NCI Thesaurus)

An E1B-55kDa-deleted adenovirus that is able to selectively replicate in and lyse TP53-deficient human tumor cells.

(ONYX-015, NCI Thesaurus)