Testosterone regulates cell proliferation in aggressive fibromatosis (desmoid tumour)
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Prostaglandins Cell Culture Pcr CYCLOOXYGENASE-TWO REGULATES PROLIFERATION IN AGGRESSIVE FIBROMATOSIS (DESMOID TUMOR)
Introduction: Aggressive fibromatosis (desmoid tumor) is a locally invasive soft tissue lesion, composed of a monoclonal proliferation of benignappearing spindle (fibroblast like) cells. A subset of lesions contain a somatic mutation in the adenomatous polyposis coli (APC) gene (1). Familial Adenomatosis Polyposis (FAP) is an inherited pre-neoplastic condition that predisposes to colonic neopla...
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عنوان ژورنال: British Journal of Cancer
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0007-0920,1532-1827
DOI: 10.1038/bjc.2011.107