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Medulloblastoma and retinoblastoma: oncology recapitulates ontogeny.
Cell cycle (Georgetown, Tex.) - 1 Jul 2004
Romer Justyna T, Curran Thomas
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One major factor hindering progress of pediatric cancers of the nervous system has been the lack of satisfactory model systems for testing novel therapies. A mouse strain, mutant for the Rb1 gene was generated 12 years ago in the hope of producing a model in which to study retinoblastoma. Surprisingly, the Rb(+/-) mice never developed retinoblastoma. Now, Zhang, Schweers and Dyer produce triply deficient Rb, p107...
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