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The role of human achaete-scute homolog-1 in medullary thyroid cancer cells.
Surgery - 1 Dec 2003
Sippel Rebecca S, Carpenter Jennifer E, Kunnimalaiyaan Muthusamy, Chen Herbert
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BACKGROUND: Human achaete-scute homolog-1 (hASH1) is a transcription factor that is expressed highly in neuroendocrine tumors such as medullary thyroid cancer (MTC). Thyroid C-cells do not develop in hASH1 knockout mice, which suggests that hASH1 is essential for normal C-cell development. METHODS: To determine the effect of raf-1 induction on hASH1 and hormone production, we used an estrogen inducible raf-1...
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