Published in Cancer Weekly, September 5th, 2006
Study 1: Timely DNA vaccine combined with systemic IL-12 prevents parotid carcinomas before a dominant-negative p53 makes their growth independent of HER-2/neu expression.
According to a study from Italy, "Double transgenic mice overexpressing the transforming rat HER-2/neu oncogene and the mutated p53, with both dominant-negative and a gain-of-function properties, display early aggressive and metastasizing parotid tumors. Multiple acinar and ductal hyperplasia foci overexpressing the HER-21neu gene product are evident at week 5 and progress to poorly...
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Source: Cancer Weekly (2006-09-05)
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