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Chronic pancreatitis is essential for induction of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma by K-Ras oncogenes in adult mice.
Cancer cell - 1 Mar 2007
Guerra Carmen, Schuhmacher Alberto J, Cañamero Marta, Grippo Paul J, Verdaguer Lena, Pérez-Gallego Lucía, Dubus Pierre, Sandgren Eric P, Barbacid Mariano
Abstract excerpt
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDA), one of the deadliest human cancers, often involves somatic activation of K-Ras oncogenes. We report that selective expression of an endogenous K-Ras(G12V) oncogene in embryonic cells of acinar/centroacinar lineage results in pancreatic intraepithelial neoplasias (PanINs) and invasive PDA, suggesting that PDA originates by differentiation of acinar/centroacinar cells or...
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