Article
Multiple stages and genetic alterations in immortalization, malignant transformation, and tumor progression of human skin keratinocytes.
Molecular carcinogenesis - 1 Nov 1998
Fusenig N E, Boukamp P
Abstract excerpt
An in vitro carcinogenesis model of human skin keratinocytes has been developed based on the spontaneously immortalized keratinocyte cell line HaCaT. Immortalization, the initial stage in human carcinogenesis in vitro, was induced by ultraviolet-type mutations in the p53 gene followed by further...
Topics
- Cell Transformation, Neoplastic
- Disease Progression
- Humans
- Keratinocytes
- Neoplasms, Radiation-Induced
- Phenotype
- Skin
- Skin Neoplasms
- Tumor Cells, Cultured
