Article
Genomic progression in mouse models for liver tumors.
Cold Spring Harbor symposia on quantitative biology - 1 Jan 2005
Tward A D, Jones K D, Yant S, Kay M A, Wang R, Bishop J M
Abstract excerpt
The principal cause of human liver cancer is infection with hepatitis viruses B and C, but tumor progression is fueled by ensuing perturbations that confer gain of function on proto-oncogenes or loss of function on tumor suppressor genes. Frequent among these perturbations is overexpression of the proto-oncogene MET. We have modeled the pathogenesis of liver tumors by expressing conditional transgenes of MET in...
Topics
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Disease Models, Animal
- Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic
- Humans
- Liver Neoplasms, Experimental
- Mice
- Mice, Transgenic
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutation
- Proto-Oncogene Mas
- Proto-Oncogene Proteins
- Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-met
- Proto-Oncogenes
- Receptors, Growth Factor
- Transfection
- beta Catenin
