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ReviewAnnals of the New York Academy of Sciences2007

The role of dead-end in germ-cell tumor development.

Rui Zhu, Chitralekha Bhattacharya, Angabin Matin

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Review in Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2007. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6citing papers in PubMed
0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 23% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 15 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Rui ZhuDepartment of Cancer Genetics, University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center, 1515 Holcombe Boulevard, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
Chitralekha Bhattacharya
Angabin Matin
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center · US

Funding

Testicular Cancer Susceptibility Genes on Mouse Chr 19.R01CA093754 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF TX MD ANDERSON CAN CTR · PI MATIN, ANGABIN · 2003 to 2009
$1.4M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA093754NCI NIH HHS R01CA93754
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Testicular germ-cell tumors occur in human males of all age groups, from infants to men over 50 years old. Most commonly, germ-cell tumors (generally known as testicular cancer) occur in young males between the ages of 15 to 35 years. The tumor tissues are usually histologically diverse, and testicular tumors that occur in the different age groups tend to be of specific histological subtypes. Most germ-cell tumors originate from primordial germ cells during embryonic development, although the progression and eventual detection of the disease occurs decades later in humans. Mouse strains spontaneously develop a specific subtype of testicular germ-cell tumors, the type I germ-cell tumors, and these tumors are similar to the germ-cell tumors (or teratomas) that occur in human infants. Some mouse strains, such as the 129-Ter strain, have extremely high germ-cell tumor incidences, making such strains ideal for genetic and biological studies of germ cell-tumor development. Here a brief overview of the recently identified genetic defect in the Ter strain, inactivation of the dead-end (Dnd1) gene, and the ongoing studies on Dnd1 to understand its role in germ-cell and germ cell-tumor development, are provided.

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AnimalsCell DifferentiationDisease ProgressionGerm CellsHumansMaleMiceNeoplasm ProteinsNeoplasms, Germ Cell and EmbryonalTesticular NeoplasmsDnd1 protein, mouseNeoplasm Proteins

Identifiers

PMID17905939
PMCPMC2518318
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