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A murine tumor progression model for pancreatic cancer recapitulating the genetic alterations of the human disease.
Genes & development - 1 Feb 2001
Wagner M, Greten F R, Weber C K, Koschnick S, Mattfeldt T, Deppert W, Kern H, Adler G, Schmid R M
Abstract excerpt
This study describes a tumor progression model for ductal pancreatic cancer in mice overexpressing TGF-alpha. Activation of Ras and Erk causes induction of cyclin D1-Cdk4 without increase of cyclin E or PCNA in ductal lesions. Thus, TGF-alpha is able to promote progression throughout G1, but not S phase. Crossbreeding with p53 null mice accelerates tumor development in TGF-alpha transgenic mice dramatically. In...
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