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Cholangiocarcinoma: recent progress. Part 2: molecular pathology and treatment.
Journal of gastroenterology and hepatology - 1 Oct 2002
Okuda Kunio, Nakanuma Yasuni, Miyazaki Masaru
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Part 2 of this review discusses DNA damage in biliary epithelial cells in the development of cholangiocarcinoma, alterations in cell kinetics of biliary epithelial cells, biliary epithelial mitoinhibition, and apoptosis that includes the role of Bcl-2, transforming growth factor-beta, telomerase activities and deregulation of Ras and p53, cancer-associated antigens in cholangiocarcinoma, precancerous lesions,...
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