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Animal models of pheochromocytoma.
1 Jul 2004
Abstract excerpt
Pheochromocytomas are neuroendocrine tumors of adrenal chromaffin cells. They are rare in all species except rats but occur with increased frequency in several human familial tumor syndromes. Concurrence of pheochromocytoma with other tumors sometimes parallels these human syndromes in rats, bovines, horses and dogs but a shared genetic basis for human and spontaneously occurring animal pheochromocytomas has thus...
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