Article
beta-Catenin mutation is selected during malignant transformation in colon carcinogenesis.
Carcinogenesis - 1 Jan 2003
Yamada Yasuhiro, Oyama Takeru, Hirose Yoshinobu, Hara Akira, Sugie Shigeyuki, Yoshida Koujiro, Yoshimi Naoki, Mori Hideki
Abstract excerpt
Activating mutations in the beta-catenin gene is thought to be responsible for the excessive beta-catenin signaling involved in the majority of colon carcinomas in rodent models. Our recent study which indicated that beta-catenin mutations are present frequently in early dysplastic lesions of rat...
Topics
- Animals
- Base Sequence
- Cell Transformation, Neoplastic
- Colonic Neoplasms
- Cytoskeletal Proteins
- Genes, ras
- Immunohistochemistry
- Male
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutation
- Rats
- Rats, Inbred F344
- Trans-Activators
- beta Catenin
