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Nuclear accumulation of beta-catenin occurs commonly in the epithelial cells of juvenile polyps.
Pediatric research - 1 Jan 2005
Iwamoto Michiko, Hoffenberg Edward J, Carethers John M, Doctolero Ryan, Tajima Akihiro, Sugano Kentaro, Franklin Wilbur A, Ahnen Dennis J
Abstract excerpt
In the two conditions juvenile polyps (JPs) and juvenile polyposis coli (JPC), colonic polyps may have overlapping histologic and phenotypic appearance, but JPC confers a significant risk for colon adenocarcinoma. Although not thought to contain adenomatous polyposis coli (APC) mutations, the status of beta-catenin and full-length APC protein expression in JPs is not known. We evaluated beta-catenin and...
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