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In 2012, his team pinned down mouse genes for antibodies that make rodents immune to the human malaria pathogen and put them in a mosquito species that spreads malaria in India.
Although Pten heterozygosity per se results in low-grade PIN in mice [ 151], Schutzman et al. [ 140] showed that concomitant inactivation of the Sprouty genes (Spry1 and Spry2) accelerated emergence of PIN and promoted development of more extensive, high-grade phenotype along with the transition to invasive cancer.
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The morphology of mouse PIN lesions was quite similar to that found in the human (Figures 1 2).
This is accentuated somewhat in mouse PIN, since in normal mouse nuclei there are highly characteristic darkly staining punctate areas of chromatin that are distributed throughout the more homogeneously staining regions, and, these punctuate areas are largely absent in the mouse PIN cells (Figures 1 2).
Finally, our detailed examination of prostate morphology in Lo-MYC (and Hi-MYC) mice uncovered an additional intermediate step (cribriform PIN/CIS) in progression from mouse PIN to invasive carcinoma.
Over-expression of ETS factors in prostate cancer cells increase cell invasion and induces prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia (PIN) in transgenic mouse models [9].
In fact, as compared to mouse PIN lesions we see increased Nkx3.1 in early pre-invasive and invasive lesions (see below).
Further, we verify that the histopathological features of MYC driven mouse PIN and early adenocarcinoma are highly similar to their human counterparts, and have shown that Nkx3.1 mRNA and protein are negatively regulated in PIN lesions by MYC.
Mouse PIN cells retained a columnar architecture and abundant cytoplasm and appeared as either a single layer of neoplastic cells or as pseudo-stratified/multilayered structures with open glandular lumina features highly analogous to human high grade PIN.
