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Senescing oral dysplasias are not immortalized by ectopic expression of hTERT alone without other molecular changes, such as loss of INK4A and/or retinoic acid receptor-beta: but p53 mutations are not necessarily required.
Oncogene - 30 Oct 2003
Muntoni Alessandra, Fleming Janis, Gordon Katrina E, Hunter Keith, McGregor Fiona, Parkinson E Kenneth, Harrison Paul R
Abstract excerpt
Our previous work showed that acquisition of immortality at the dysplasia stage of oral cancer progression was consistently associated with four changes: loss of retinoic acid receptor (RAR)-beta and p16INK4A expression, p53 mutations and activation of telomerase. One atypical dysplasia (D17) that underwent delayed senescence after an extended lifespan showed loss of RAR-beta and p16INK4A/p14ARF expression, but...
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