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MOLECULAR CANCER RESEARCH
Volume 8, Issue 11, Pages 1439-1452Publisher
AMER ASSOC CANCER RESEARCH
DOI: 10.1158/1541-7786.MCR-10-0168
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- Norwegian Cancer Society
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The fibroblast growth factor receptors (FGFR) play essential roles both during development and in the adult. Upon ligand binding, FGFRs induce intracellular signaling networks that tightly regulate key biological processes, such as cell proliferation, survival, migration, and differentiation. Deregulation of FGFR signaling can thus alter tissue homeostasis and has been associated with several developmental syndromes as well as with many types of cancer. In human cancer, FGFRs have been found to be deregulated by multiple mechanisms, including aberrant expression, mutations, chromosomal rearrangements, and amplifications. In this review, we will give an overview of the main FGFR alterations described in human cancer to date and discuss their contribution to cancer progression. Mol Cancer Res; 8(11); 1439-52. (C) 2010 AACR.
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