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Transcriptional activation of the human gastrin-releasing peptide receptor gene in gastrointestinal and prostatic epithelial cancer cells.
Journal of molecular neuroscience : MN - 1 Jan 2004
Qu Xiangping, Xiao Dongmei, Weber H Christian
Abstract excerpt
The mammalian gastrin-releasing peptide receptor (GRP-R) belongs to the superfamily of G protein-coupled receptors and mediates actions of the regulatory GRP and bombesin, the amphibian homolog of GRP. Owing to its frequent ectopic expression in some epithelial human malignancies, such as cancers...
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