Figure 3: Immunohistochemical staining of the spindle cell tumor in Figure 2, showing expression of actin in the cytoplasm of the neoplastic fusiform cells.
2008, Xu et al. 2009; Sun et al. 2010; Zhang et al. 2011). Currently we are interested in understanding how Mps1 kinase is turned on and off in a cell cycle dependent manner and how its activity is ...
“It was this rare type of tumor called a spindle cell tumor,” said Dr. Jennifer Foster, Pediatric Oncologist with Texas Children’s Hospital. “Unfortunately, about a year after ...
Spindle fibers form a protein structure that divides the genetic material in a cell. The spindle is necessary to equally divide the chromosomes in a parental cell into two daughter cells during ...
In addition, he studies the spindle assembly checkpoint which ensures proper chromosome segregation and is often deregulated in cancer. Joan Massagué, PhD Joan Massagué studies the control of stem ...
Primary seminal vesicle tumors are very rare; less than 100 cases have been reported in the English literature to date. Patients usually present with lower urinary tract symptoms or hematospermia.