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Human primitive neuroectodermal tumour cells behave as multipotent neural precursors in response to FGF2.
Oncogene - 1 Oct 1998
Derrington E A, Dufay N, Rudkin B B, Belin M F
Abstract excerpt
Primitive neuroectodermal tumours (PNET) are thought to derive from the malignant transformation of pluripotent CNS precursors although this hypothesis has yet to be tested in vitro. Here we show that cells of a human PNET cell line 'Dev' express functional fibroblast growth factor (FGF) receptors (FGFR) and respond to FGF2 as multipotent CNS precursors. FGF2 induces tyrosine phosphorylation of FGFR-1 and FGFR-2...
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