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Precancerous lesions upon sporadic activation of beta-catenin in mice.
Gastroenterology - 1 Apr 2007
Coste Isabelle, Freund Jean-Noël, Spaderna Simone, Brabletz Thomas, Renno Toufic
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BACKGROUND & AIMS: Inappropriate activation of beta-catenin in adult tissues is associated with a wide variety of cancers, especially in the digestive tract. Classic transgenic and knockout murine models in which beta-catenin is activated in large fields of cells have provided experimental support in favor of a role for this molecule in tumorigenesis. However, these models do not reproduce the sporadic nature of...
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