Article
Gene expression, cellular diversification and tumor progression to the metastatic phenotype.
BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology - 1 Jul 1991
Nicolson G L
Abstract excerpt
Alterations in the expression of certain genes or in their products can render benign tumor cells metastatic. Experimentally this has been quickly performed by transferring dominantly acting oncogenes such as c-H-rasEJ into susceptible cells, but in vivo such a rapid qualitative change in a dominantly acting oncogene occurs only rarely, and progression to highly metastatic phenotypes is thought to occur through a...
Topics
- Animals
- Cell Differentiation
- Clone Cells
- Fibroblasts
- Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic
- Genes, Tumor Suppressor
- Growth Substances
- Humans
- Mice
- Neoplasm Metastasis
- Neoplasm Proteins
