Article
Hereditary renal cell carcinoma in the Eker rat: a rodent familial cancer syndrome.
The Journal of urology - 1 Dec 1992
Everitt J I, Goldsworthy T L, Wolf D C, Walker C L
Abstract excerpt
A rodent model of hereditary cancer in which a single gene mutation predisposes rats to bilateral multicentric renal cell carcinoma (RCC) is described. This rat hereditary cancer syndrome shares certain similarities with von Hippel-Lindau disease (VHLD). In addition to the early development of renal epithelial tumors with morphologic similarity to human RCC, rats which bear the RCC gene are predisposed to the...
Topics
- Animals
- Carcinoma, Renal Cell
- Female
- Kidney Neoplasms
- Male
- Mutation
- Rats
- Rats, Mutant Strains
- Syndrome
- Time Factors
