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A 50% decrease in p53 monomers can easily be imagined to result in a greater than 50% decrease in functional tetramers, which in turn increases the chances of these cells becoming cancerous.
Acquired large lesions with cancerous potential => 110
In the case of human tumor xenografts in a mouse host, however, it can be determined conclusively that expression of cell adhesion and ECM genes is upregulated in the cancerous cells in the tumor tissue.
It can therefore be concluded that, in all but a handful of genes, the numerous significant changes observed in gene expression in the xenograft tumors are due to the cancerous (human) cells and not the surrounding (mouse) host tissue.
We recognize that the in vitro model systems used here offer at best only an approximation of normal and cancerous prostatic epithelia.