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Introduction of wild-type p53 enhances thrombospondin-1 expression in human glioma cells.
Cancer letters - 28 Feb 2003
Harada Hironobu, Nakagawa Kou, Saito Masahiro, Kohno Shohei, Nagato Shigeyuki, Furukawa Koji, Kumon Yoshiaki, Hamada Katsuyuki, Ohnishi Takanori
Abstract excerpt
Malignant gliomas are distinguished from low-grade gliomas by their intense angiogenesis. In gliomas, p53 is the most frequently altered gene and is involved in the early phase of glioma development. In contrast, homozygous p16 gene deletion is more common in high-grade gliomas. In order to understand the mechanism by which gliomas become more angiogenic during the malignant transformation, we examined the...
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