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Zebrafish Hagoromo mutants up-regulate fgf8 postembryonically and develop neuroblastoma.
Molecular cancer research : MCR - 1 Jun 2009
Amsterdam Adam, Lai Kevin, Komisarczuk Anna Z, Becker Thomas S, Bronson Roderick T, Hopkins Nancy, Lees Jacqueline A
Abstract excerpt
We screened an existing collection of zebrafish insertional mutants for cancer susceptibility by histologic examination of heterozygotes at 2 years of age. As most mutants had no altered cancer predisposition, this provided the first comprehensive description of spontaneous tumor spectrum and frequency in adult zebrafish. Moreover, the screen identified four lines, each carrying a different dominant mutant allele...
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