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Chemically Induced Oncogenesis in the Peripheral Nervous System Is Suppressed in Congenic BDIX.BDIV-Mss1 and -Mss7 Rats.
G3 (Bethesda, Md.) - 3 Nov 2015
Koelsch Bernd, van den Berg Linda, Fischer Christine, Winzen-Reichert Bettina, Kutritz Andrea, Kindler-Röhrborn Andrea
Abstract excerpt
Human malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors (MPNSTs) are highly aggressive soft-tissue sarcomas with a poor prognosis that arise either in the context of neurofibromatosis 1 or sporadically. Inbred BDIX and BDIV rat strains highly susceptible and resistant, respectively, to the development of ethylnitrosourea-induced MPNST enable us to identify, by using methods not applicable in humans, variant alleles...
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