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A Murine Model of K-RAS and β-Catenin Induced Renal Tumors Expresses High Levels of E2F1 and Resembles Human Wilms Tumor.
The Journal of urology - 1 Dec 2015
Yi Yajun, Polosukhina Dina, Love Harold D, Hembd Austin, Pickup Michael, Moses Harold L, Lovvorn Harold N, Zent Roy, Clark Peter E
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PURPOSE: Wilms tumor is the most common renal neoplasm of childhood. We previously found that restricted activation of the WNT/β-catenin pathway in renal epithelium late in kidney development is sufficient to induce small primitive neoplasms with features of epithelial Wilms tumor. Metastatic disease progression required simultaneous addition of an activating mutation of the oncogene K-RAS. We sought to define...
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