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Neuregulin-1 overexpression and Trp53 haploinsufficiency cooperatively promote de novo malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor pathogenesis.
Acta neuropathologica - 1 Apr 2014
Brosius Stephanie N, Turk Amy N, Byer Stephanie J, Brossier Nicole M, Kohli Latika, Whitmire Amber, Mikhail Fady M, Roth Kevin A, Carroll Steven L
Abstract excerpt
Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors (MPNSTs) are Schwann cell-derived malignancies that arise from plexiform neurofibromas in patients with mutation of the neurofibromin 1 (NF1) gene. We have shown that the growth factor neuregulin-1 (NRG1) also contributes to human neurofibroma and MPNST pathogenesis and that outbred C57BL/6J × SJL/J transgenic mice overexpressing NRG1 in Schwann cells (P0-GGFβ3 mice)...
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