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While neoplasia with osseous metastasis is a potential cause of hypercalcemia, tumors may also secrete materials such as PTH-rp or other osteoclast-activating factors, cytokines, or other growth factors that modulate bone remodeling leading to calcium adsorption from bone.
LOH at the Pten locus has recently been reported in mammary tumors arising in Pten heterozygous mice [ 26], but only 4% of the mice developed tumors before the age of 30 weeks, and, in our cross, none of the Pten +/- mice without the Wnt-1 transgene had a palpable mammary tumor before the age of 30 weeks.
These findings lead us to conclude that tumors 5A and 5B are essentially indistinguishable by microarray analysis, suggesting that they are likely to be derived from the same clone.
Although somatic mutations in the gene have been detected in only about 1% of breast cancers, loss of heterozygosity (LOH) at the PTEN locus (10q23) is frequently found (approximately 40%), and 33% of breast tumors have no detectable, or reduced, levels of the protein product [ 18, 19, 20, 21, 22].
This confirmed the previous observations obtained with monoclonal antibody NMT-1 [ 13 ] . Data also showed that a subset of ER+ tumors expressed nmt55/p54 nrbprotein detectable with polyclonal antibody NMT-5 and monoclonal antibody NMT-1 but not polyclonal antibody NMT-4.