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Sunburn and p53 in the onset of skin cancer.
Nature - 1 Jan 2000
Ziegler A, Jonason A S, Leffell D J, Simon J A, Sharma H W, Kimmelman J, Remington L, Jacks T, Brash D E
Abstract excerpt
Squamous cell carcinoma of the skin (SCC) can progress by stages: sun-damaged epidermis, with individual disordered keratinocytes; actinic keratosis (AK), spontaneously regressing keratinized patches having aberrant cell differentiation and proliferation; carcinoma in situ; SCC and metastasis. To understand how sunlight acts as a carcinogen, we determined the stage at which sunlight mutates the p53...
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