Retinoblastoma (Rb) is a rare form of cancer that rapidly develops from the immature cells of a retina, the light-detecting tissue of the eye. It is the...
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The retinoblastoma protein (protein name abbreviated Rb or pRb; gene name abbreviated Rb, RB or RB1) is a tumor suppressor protein that is dysfunctional...
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Trilateral retinoblastoma (TRb) is a malignant midline primitive neuroectodermal tumor occurring in patients with inherited uni- or bilateral retinoblastoma. In...
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the retinoblastoma tumor suppressor protein. Alfred Knudson, a pediatrician and cancer geneticist, proposed that in order to develop retinoblastoma, two...
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Blastoma (section Retinoblastoma)
often called blasts. Examples are nephroblastoma, medulloblastoma, and retinoblastoma. The suffix -blastoma is used to imply a tumor of primitive, incompletely...
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Retinoblastoma-like 1 (p107), also known as RBL1, is a protein that in humans is encoded by the RBL1 gene. The protein encoded by this gene is similar...
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Retinoblastoma-like protein 2 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the RBL2 gene. Retinoblastoma-like protein 2 has been shown to interact with:...
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cancer. During this transition, G1 cyclin D-Cdk4/6 dimer phosphorylates retinoblastoma releasing transcription factor E2F, which then drives the transition...
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cases of retinoblastoma, a tumor of the retina that occurs both as an inherited disease and sporadically. He noted that inherited retinoblastoma occurs...
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Flexner–Wintersteiner rosettes, a spoke-and-wheel shaped cell formation seen in retinoblastoma and certain other ophthalmic tumors,) have been described as a form...
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