| Literature DB >> 3474152 |
R N Buick, J Filmus, A Quaroni.
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We describe malignant transformation of cultured rat intestinal epithelial cells (IEC-18) by transfection with the activated human H-ras gene cloned from the EJ bladder carcinoma. Transformed cells showed a marked morphological change, expressed high levels of the transfected H-ras gene, were able to grow in agar and expressed antigenic markers identical with parental IEC-18 cells. When injected into syngeneic rats these cells formed rapidly growing tumors expressing the same intestinal-specific antigenic markers as the injected cells. Parallel to the high expression of H-ras mRNA in the transformants we document overexpression of rat alpha-TGF mRNA.Entities:
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Year: 1987 PMID: 3474152 DOI: 10.1016/0014-4827(87)90308-9
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Exp Cell Res ISSN: 0014-4827 Impact factor: 3.905