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Retinoblastoma

Retinoblastoma
(Science: molecular biology, oncology, biology)A rare, life threatening eye cancer that was one of the first heritable cancers to be found and documented. Most cases and be found by having a MRI(magnetic resonance imaging) done or by just looking at the persons eye. It will apear as glass on the retina and/or will be red and "puffed" out.


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... retroviral promoter than are c-oncs All of these 5.Which of the following is the best example of a tumor-suppressor gene? The RB gene involved in retinoblastoma C-myc involved in Burkitt's lymphoma. Philadelphia chromosome in chronic myelogenous leukemia Platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) C- ...

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by kpax
Tue Aug 25, 2009 2:33 pm
 
Forum: Genetics
Topic: Please Help
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Allele symbols/acronyms?

Thanks for your reply! In this case, Rb is retinoblastoma. The paper is talking about how Rb influnces the regulation of hematopoietic stem cells. Sorry, I should have said that in the first place! I guess it is silly of me to assume that "fl" ...

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by BioGradStudent
Tue Sep 09, 2008 6:20 pm
 
Forum: Genetics
Topic: Allele symbols/acronyms?
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Views: 1395

Re: Allele symbols/acronyms?

Hard to say without knowing what the paper is about. Rb could stand for Retinoblastoma or ruby—both of which, it turns out, are X-linked; ruby is an eye color marker. fl is probably fluted : a phenotypic marker of wing morphology located on chromosome 3, which ...

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by blcr11
Tue Sep 09, 2008 4:02 pm
 
Forum: Genetics
Topic: Allele symbols/acronyms?
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human papilloma virus

... 9-12 or so) and look at the function for each. I think there are two viral proteins that inhibit two different cellular tumor suppressors, p53 and retinoblastoma. Epithelial stem cells infected with HPV will not enter the lytic cycle (although their differentiated descendants will, for some reason ...

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by snowcapk
Sat Apr 19, 2008 9:31 am
 
Forum: Cell Biology
Topic: human papilloma virus
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