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Inflaming gastrointestinal oncogenic programming.
Cancer cell - 8 Jul 2008
DeNardo David G, Johansson Magnus, Coussens Lisa M
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The etiology of gastrointestinal tumors implicates a role for chronic inflammation in response to pathogenic microflora as a promoting force for full neoplastic progression. Recently, Oguma and coworkers (2008) demonstrated that TNFalpha, derived from recruited macrophages, potentiates Wnt/beta-catenin signaling and gastric carcinogenesis by activating Akt signaling and GSK3beta phosphorylation independent of the...
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