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The gastrin receptor promotes pancreatic growth in transgenic mice.
Pancreas - 1 Mar 2002
Yen Tina W F, Sandgren Eric P, Liggitt H Denny, Palmiter Richard D, Zhou Weigong, Hinds Thomas R, Grippo Paul J, McDonald Jerome M, Robinson Linda M, Bell Richard H
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INTRODUCTION: We demonstrated previously, in two different rodent models of pancreatic cancer, that the gastrin receptor is present on malignant pancreatic tumors in spite of the fact that the normal adult rat and mouse pancreas does not express gastrin receptors. AIMS AND METHODOLOGY: To determine whether gastrin receptors mediate pancreatic growth or promote carcinogenesis or both, we created a transgenic mouse...
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