Article
Ki-ras oncogene activation in preinvasive pancreatic cancer.
Gastroenterology - 1 Jan 1992
Lemoine N R, Jain S, Hughes C M, Staddon S L, Maillet B, Hall P A, Klöppel G
Abstract excerpt
Activation of the Ki-ras oncogene by specific point mutations at codon 12 occurs at a remarkably high frequency in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma and is likely to be an important event in the pathogenesis of this cancer. To determine whether ras activation also occurs in noninvasive proliferati...
Topics
- Adult
- Aged
- Carcinoma, Intraductal, Noninfiltrating
- Female
- Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic
- Genes, ras
- Humans
- Hyperplasia
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Mutation
- Neoplasm Invasiveness
- Oncogenes
