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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
48
pubmed:dateCreated
2007-10-18
pubmed:abstractText
Lung cancer is a devastating disease with poor prognosis. The design of better therapies for lung cancer patients would be greatly aided by good mouse models that closely resemble the human disease. Unfortunately, current models for lung adenocarcinoma are inadequate due to the absence of metastases. In this study, we incorporated both K-ras and p53 missense mutations into the mouse genome and established a more faithful genetic model for human lung adenocarcinoma, the most common type of lung cancer. Mice with both mutations developed advanced lung adenocarcinomas that were highly aggressive and metastasized to multiple intrathoracic and extrathoracic sites in a pattern similar to that of human lung cancer. These mice also showed a gender difference in cancer-related death. Additionally, the presence of both mutations induced pleural mesotheliomas in 23% of these mice. This mouse model recapitulates the metastatic nature of human lung cancer and will be invaluable to further probe the molecular basis of metastatic lung cancer and for translational studies.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Oct
pubmed:issn
0950-9232
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
18
pubmed:volume
26
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
6896-904
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:17486075-Adenocarcinoma, pubmed-meshheading:17486075-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:17486075-Blotting, Western, pubmed-meshheading:17486075-Disease Models, Animal, pubmed-meshheading:17486075-Female, pubmed-meshheading:17486075-Genes, ras, pubmed-meshheading:17486075-Immunoprecipitation, pubmed-meshheading:17486075-Lung Neoplasms, pubmed-meshheading:17486075-Male, pubmed-meshheading:17486075-Mesothelioma, pubmed-meshheading:17486075-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:17486075-Mice, Knockout, pubmed-meshheading:17486075-Mutation, Missense, pubmed-meshheading:17486075-Pleural Neoplasms, pubmed-meshheading:17486075-RNA, Messenger, pubmed-meshheading:17486075-Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction, pubmed-meshheading:17486075-Sex Factors, pubmed-meshheading:17486075-Survival Rate, pubmed-meshheading:17486075-Tumor Suppressor Protein p53
pubmed:year
2007
pubmed:articleTitle
A genetic mouse model for metastatic lung cancer with gender differences in survival.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Cancer Genetics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S., Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural