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Functional And Mechanical Role Of Splice Variant Of Mucin4 (Muc4/X) And Trefoil Factors In Pancreatic Cancer Pathogenesis, Rahat Jahan
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Pancreatic Cancer (PC) is one of the vicious cancers as it ranks third in the race of leading cause of cancer-related death. Lack of early diagnostic marker, poor understanding of molecular mechanism of the disease and failure to conventional chemotherapy makes this disease dreadful.
Mucin 4 (MUC4), a high molecular weight glycoprotein is one of the top differentially expressed molecules in PC while not expressed in normal pancreas. Accumulating evidence from our lab suggested its tumorigenic role in PC by increasing cell proliferation, invasion, chemotherapy resistance, tumor growth, and metastasis. Previously, our lab and other has identified 24 different splice …