Pancreatic tumor pathogenesis reflects the causative genetic lesion.
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Pancreatic tumor pathogenesis reflects the causative genetic lesion.
Transgenic mice in which c-myc expression is targeted to pancreatic acinar cells develop mixed acinar/ductal pancreatic adenocarcinomas between 2 and 7 months of age. This contrasts with the effect on pancreas of the simian virus 40 tumor antigen or activated ras, which in adult mice causes lesions composed exclusively of acinar-like cells. Furthermore, during an early stage of myc-induced path...
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
سال: 1991
ISSN: 0027-8424,1091-6490
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.88.1.93