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[Involvement of the IGF system in the pathogenesis of adrenocortical tumors].
Annales d'endocrinologie - 1 Apr 2001
Gicquel C, Boulle N, Logié A, Bourcigaux N, Gaston V, Le Bouc Y
Abstract excerpt
Adrenocortical carcinoma remains a challenge for the therapeutist; prognosis is ominous. Various abnormalities playing a pathogenetic role have been recently described in adrenocortical tumors. Among them, dysregulation of the IGF system and imprinting mistakes at the 11p15 locus play a determining role in malignant transformation of adrenocortical cells. These markers of the malignant phenotype might markedly...
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