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Loss of p53 expression correlates with metastatic phenotype and transcriptional profile in a new mouse model of head and neck cancer.
Molecular cancer research : MCR - 1 Apr 2007
Ku Tony K S, Nguyen Dan C, Karaman Mazen, Gill Parkash, Hacia Joseph G, Crowe David L
Abstract excerpt
Squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck (HNSCC) is the sixth most frequent cancer worldwide. Because HNSCC is largely acquired by environmental carcinogen exposure rather than through germ line mutations, there are no known familial forms of the disease in humans nor are there inbred rodent strains prone to spontaneous head and neck tumors. Transgenic animals with inactivation of tumor suppressor genes...
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