Article
Autocrine transforming growth factor alpha is dispensible for v-rasHa-induced epidermal neoplasia: potential involvement of alternate epidermal growth factor receptor ligands.
Cancer research - 1 May 1995
Dlugosz A A, Cheng C, Williams E K, Darwiche N, Dempsey P J, Mann B, Dunn A R, Coffey R J, Yuspa S H
Abstract excerpt
Autocrine epidermal growth factor receptor activation by transforming growth factor alpha (TGF alpha) has been implicated in growth stimulation during epithelial neoplasia. Using keratinocytes isolated from mice with genetic defects in TGF alpha expression, we tested whether TGF alpha is required for transformation by the v-rasHa oncogene. Introduction of v-rasHa into primary epidermal cultures using a retroviral...
Topics
- Animals
- Cell Division
- Cell Transformation, Neoplastic
- ErbB Receptors
- Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic
- Genes, ras
- Keratinocytes
- Ligands
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred BALB C
