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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
4
pubmed:dateCreated
2009-12-1
pubmed:abstractText
Multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1 (MEN1) is an autosomal dominant disorder characterized in man by parathyroid, pancreatic, pituitary and adrenal tumours. The MEN1 gene encodes a 610-amino acid protein (menin) which is a tumour suppressor. To investigate the in vivo role of menin, we developed a mouse model, by deleting Men1 exons 1 and 2 and investigated this for MEN1-associated tumours and serum abnormalities. Men1(+/-) mice were viable and fertile, and 220 Men1(+/-) and 94 Men1(+/+) mice were studied between the ages of 3 and 21 months. Survival in Men1(+/-) mice was significantly lower than in Men1(+/+) mice (<68% vs >85%, P<0.01). Men1(+/-) mice developed, by 9 months of age, parathyroid hyperplasia, pancreatic tumours which were mostly insulinomas, by 12 months of age, pituitary tumours which were mostly prolactinomas, and by 15 months parathyroid adenomas and adrenal cortical tumours. Loss of heterozygosity and menin expression was demonstrated in the tumours, consistent with a tumour suppressor role for the Men1 gene. Men1(+/-) mice with parathyroid neoplasms were hypercalcaemic and hypophosphataemic, with inappropriately normal serum parathyroid hormone concentrations. Pancreatic and pituitary tumours expressed chromogranin A (CgA), somatostatin receptor type 2 and vascular endothelial growth factor-A. Serum CgA concentrations in Men1(+/-) mice were not elevated. Adrenocortical tumours, which immunostained for 3-beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase, developed in seven Men1(+/-) mice, but resulted in hypercorticosteronaemia in one out of the four mice that were investigated. Thus, these Men1(+/-) mice are representative of MEN1 in man, and will help in investigating molecular mechanisms and treatments for endocrine tumours.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Dec
pubmed:issn
1479-6821
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
16
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1313-27
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:19620250-Adrenal Gland Neoplasms, pubmed-meshheading:19620250-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:19620250-Blotting, Western, pubmed-meshheading:19620250-Corticosterone, pubmed-meshheading:19620250-Female, pubmed-meshheading:19620250-Hypercalcemia, pubmed-meshheading:19620250-Hypophosphatemia, pubmed-meshheading:19620250-Immunoenzyme Techniques, pubmed-meshheading:19620250-Loss of Heterozygosity, pubmed-meshheading:19620250-Male, pubmed-meshheading:19620250-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:19620250-Mice, Inbred C57BL, pubmed-meshheading:19620250-Mice, Knockout, pubmed-meshheading:19620250-Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia Type 1, pubmed-meshheading:19620250-Pancreatic Neoplasms, pubmed-meshheading:19620250-Parathyroid Neoplasms, pubmed-meshheading:19620250-Pituitary Neoplasms, pubmed-meshheading:19620250-Proto-Oncogene Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:19620250-RNA, Messenger, pubmed-meshheading:19620250-Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction
pubmed:year
2009
pubmed:articleTitle
Multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1 knockout mice develop parathyroid, pancreatic, pituitary and adrenal tumours with hypercalcaemia, hypophosphataemia and hypercorticosteronaemia.
pubmed:affiliation
Academic Endocrine Unit, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism (OCDEM), Churchill Hospital, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't