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Keeping order in the neighborhood: new roles for TGFbeta in maintaining epithelial homeostasis.
Cancer cell - 1 Oct 2007
Wakefield Lalage M, Stuelten Christina
Abstract excerpt
TGFbetas are thought to have tumor suppressor activity in many organ systems, but receptor inactivation in mouse models has not previously resulted in increased spontaneous tumorigenesis. A study in this issue of Cancer Cell shows that mice with a targeted knockout of the type II TGFbeta receptor in stratified epithelia specifically develop spontaneous squamous cell carcinomas in the anogenital region, but not in...
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