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Pancreas Development and Cancer: Wnt/β-Catenin at Issue…

Jessica Dessimoz and Anne Grapin-Botton

volume 5 | issue 1

1 january 2006
Pages: 7 - 10

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β-catenin and Adenomatous poliposis coli (APC) have been implicated in non-ductal pancreatic cancers. As for many other organs, several recent publications show that β-catenin and more largely the Wnt pathway appear to function at the level of pancreatic progenitors and endocrine cells during organogenesis. This raises the question of the cell type in which β-catenin is mutated during tumor formation in acinar cell carcinomas, pancreatoblastomas and solid cystic papillary tumors of the pancreas.



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