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Suppression of ethylnitrosourea-induced schwannoma development involves elimination of neu/erbB-2 mutant premalignant cells in the resistant BDIV rat strain.
Cancer research - 1 Sept 2000
Kindler-Röhrborn A, Kind A B, Koelsch B U, Fischer C, Rajewsky M F
Abstract excerpt
Contrary to the response of rats of the highly sensitive inbred strain BDIX, BDIV rats are resistant to the induction of malignant schwannomas by exposure to the alkylating N-nitroso carcinogen N-ethyl-N-nitrosourea (EtNU). In BDIX rats, a point mutation at nucleotide 2012 in the transmembrane region of the neu/erbB-2 gene has proved to be a very early marker of initiated Schwann precursor cells with an elevated...
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