mortality/aging
• many mice do not survive to 13 weeks after tamoxifen treatment due to high tumor burden
• mice display leaky cre expression without tamoxifen treatment and survive a few months longer than tamoxifen-treated animals
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neoplasm
• after tamoxifen treatment, mice show a more severe phenotype than animals with wild-type Trp53 (greater tumor size, tumor growth and tumor grade); by 3-4 weeks after tamoxifen treatment, several small adenomas of papillary nature are observed in alveoli
• at 10 weeks after tamoxifen injection, many alveoli have large tumors; tumors exhibit enlarged pleomorphic nuclei, aberrant mitosis; tumor giant cells are present
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• mice surviving to 13 weeks after tamoxifen treatment have adenocarcinomas in the alveoli of the lungs
• without tamoxifen treatment, mice develop invasive lung adenocarcinomas localized to the alveoli
• bronchioalveolar duct junctions (BADJs) appear normal ( in mice with or without tamoxifen treatment)
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respiratory system
• after tamoxifen treatment, mice show a more severe phenotype than animals with wild-type Trp53 (greater tumor size, tumor growth and tumor grade); by 3-4 weeks after tamoxifen treatment, several small adenomas of papillary nature are observed in alveoli
• at 10 weeks after tamoxifen injection, many alveoli have large tumors; tumors exhibit enlarged pleomorphic nuclei, aberrant mitosis; tumor giant cells are present
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• mice surviving to 13 weeks after tamoxifen treatment have adenocarcinomas in the alveoli of the lungs
• without tamoxifen treatment, mice develop invasive lung adenocarcinomas localized to the alveoli
• bronchioalveolar duct junctions (BADJs) appear normal ( in mice with or without tamoxifen treatment)
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• 8 days after tamoxifen treatment, extensive type II cell proliferation is observed compared to wild-type; however, proliferating bronchioalveolar stem cells (BASCs) are rarely observed (at 8 days, 3, 6, 10 and 13 weeks after tamoxifen treatment)
• tumor cells express type II cell markers and are highly proliferative, even without tamoxifen treatment
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