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ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus
SUBMITTER: Timothy Wang
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-39273 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Asfaha Samuel S Dubeykovskiy Alexander N AN Tomita Hiroyuki H Yang Xiangdong X Stokes Sarah S Shibata Wataru W Friedman Richard A RA Ariyama Hiroshi H Dubeykovskaya Zinaida A ZA Muthupalani Sureshkumar S Ericksen Russell R Frucht Harold H Fox James G JG Wang Timothy C TC
Gastroenterology 20121003 1
<h4>Background & aims</h4>Interleukin (IL)-8 has an important role in initiating inflammation in humans, attracting immune cells such as neutrophils through their receptors CXCR1 and CXCR2. IL-8 has been proposed to contribute to chronic inflammation and cancer. However, mice do not have the IL-8 gene, so human cancer cell lines and xenograft studies have been used to study the role of IL-8 in colon and gastric carcinogenesis. We generated mice that carry a bacterial artificial chromosome that e ...[more]