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Liver-targeted disruption of Apc in mice activates beta-catenin signaling and leads to hepatocellular carcinomas.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 7 Dec 2004
Colnot S, Decaens T, Niwa-Kawakita M, Godard C, Hamard G, Kahn A, Giovannini M, Perret C
Abstract excerpt
Although inappropriate activation of the Wnt/beta-catenin pathway has been implicated in the development of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), the role of this signaling in liver carcinogenesis remains unclear. To investigate this issue, we constructed a mutant mouse strain, Apc(lox/lox), in which exon 14 of the tumor-suppressor gene adenomatous polyposis coli (Apc) is flanked by loxP sequences. i.v. injection of...
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