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Increased susceptibility of estrogen-induced bladder outlet obstruction in a novel mouse model.
Laboratory investigation; a journal of technical methods and pathology - 1 May 2015
Tam Neville Ngai-Chung, Zhang Xiang, Xiao Hong, Song Dan, Levin Linda, Meller Jarek, Ho Shuk-Mei
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Disorders of the prostate and lower urinary tract are common in elderly men. We investigated the role of metallothionein-1 (MT1) in prostate carcinogenesis by generating a prostate-specific, MT1-expressing mouse. Unexpectedly, genomic analyses revealed that a 12.1-kb genomic region harboring several conserved noncoding elements was unintentionally deleted, upstream of the transgene integration site in the mouse,...
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