1. Prostate tumor progression in TgAPT121 mice is accelerated and diversified by Pten heterozygosity.
Prostate tumor progression in TgAPT121 mice is accelerated and diversified by Pten heterozygosity. The timing of appearance and persistence of prostate lesions is graphed as a function of time based on data presented in Table 1. H&E-stained prostate sections were examined and each sample was scored for the presence of each pathologic abnormality in the dorsal, ventral, and anterior lobes of TgAPT121, TgAPT121;Pten+/−, and Pten+/− prostates from mice at 6 to 12 weeks of age (n = 5, 5, and 4, respectively), 13 to 35 weeks of age (n = 10, 5, and 4, respectively), and >36 weeks of age (n = 18, 10, and 6, respectively). The earliest time examined was 6 weeks. TgAPT121 prostates progress from diffuse hyperplasia with interspersed dysplasia to mPIN at 12 weeks. Older mice show development of well-differentiated adenocarcinomas at 16 weeks. Pten heterozygosity accelerates the onset of mPIN and adenocarcinoma in TgAPT121 mice. In addition, morphologically distinct areas of adenocarcinoma progression also appear by 17 weeks. Pten+/− littermate prostates appear normal until 37 weeks when they show limited focal hyperplasia without atypia.
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