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Obesity enhances gastrointestinal tumorigenesis in Apc-mutant mice.
International journal of obesity (2005) - 1 Nov 2008
Gravaghi C, Bo J, Laperle K M D, Quimby F, Kucherlapati R, Edelmann W, Lamprecht S A
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Epidemiological evidence indicates a link between obesity and human colon cancer. A putative association between obesity and colon tumorigenesis has been explored experimentally using chemical carcinogens administered to obese rodents. The main objective of this study was to generate a new mouse...
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