Article
Molecular defects in thyroid carcinomas: role of the RET oncogene in thyroid neoplastic transformation.
European journal of endocrinology - 1 Nov 1995
Santoro M, Grieco M, Melillo R M, Fusco A, Vecchio G
Abstract excerpt
Tumors are believed to arise as a result of an accumulation of mutations in critical genes involved in the control of cell proliferation. Thyroid neoplasms represent a good model for studying the role of these mutations in epithelial cell multistep carcinogenesis because they comprise a broad spe...
Topics
- Carcinoma
- Carcinoma, Papillary
- Cell Transformation, Neoplastic
- Drosophila Proteins
- Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic
- Humans
- Mutation
- Oncogenes
- Phenotype
- Proto-Oncogene Proteins
- Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-ret
- Receptor Protein-Tyrosine Kinases
- Receptor, trkA
- Receptors, Nerve Growth Factor
- Thyroid Neoplasms
- Tumor Suppressor Protein p53
