Disruption of Tubular Flcn Expression as a Mouse Model for Renal Tumor Induction

    June 2015 in “ Kidney International
    Jindong Chen, Dachuan Huang, Isabelle Rubera, Kitaro Futami, Pengfei Wang, Peter Zlckert, Sok Kean Khoo, Karl Dykema, Ping Zhao, David Petillo, Brian Cao, Zhongfa Zhang, Shuhui Si, Susan R. Schoen, Ximing J. Yang, Ming Zhou, Guang-Qian Xiao, Guan Wu, Magnus Nordenskjöld, Michel Tauc, Bart O. Williams, Kyle A. Furge, Bin Tean Teh
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    Studysummary This study developed a kidney-specific knockout mouse model lacking the Flcn gene, which recapitulates human Birt-Hogg-Dubé kidney tumorigenesis and shows that mTOR pathway inhibition with rapamycin can suppress tumor growth.
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