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Low dietary folate initiates intestinal tumors in mice, with altered expression of G2-M checkpoint regulators polo-like kinase 1 and cell division cycle 25c.
Cancer research - 1 Nov 2006
Knock Erin, Deng Liyuan, Wu Qing, Leclerc Daniel, Wang Xiao-ling, Rozen Rima
Abstract excerpt
Clinical reports have suggested that low dietary folate increases risk for colorectal cancer. Animal studies for investigation of folate and tumorigenesis have used carcinogen induction or mice with germ-line mutations. We have developed a new spontaneous tumor model in which mice, with or withou...
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