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SUBMITTER: Xu X
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3323959 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Xu Xia X Rock Jason R JR Lu Yun Y Futtner Christopher C Schwab Brian B Guinney Justin J Hogan Brigid L M BL Onaitis Mark W MW
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20120312 13
Identifying the cells of origin of lung cancer may lead to new therapeutic strategies. Previous work has focused upon the putative bronchoalveolar stem cell at the bronchioalveolar duct junction as a cancer cell of origin when a codon 12 K-Ras mutant is induced via adenoviral Cre inhalation. In the present study, we use two "knock-in" Cre-estrogen receptor alleles to inducibly express K-RasG12D in CC10(+) epithelial cells and Sftpc(+) type II alveolar cells of the adult mouse lung. Analysis of t ...[more]