Nevospheres from neurocutaneous melanocytosis cells show reduced viability when treated with specific inhibitors of NRAS signaling pathway.

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Published in Neuro Oncol on September 09, 2015

Authors

Dipanjan Basu1, Cláudia M Salgado1, Bruce S Bauer1, Donald Johnson1, Veronica Rundell1, Marina Nikiforova1, Yasmin Khakoo1, Lorelei J Gunwaldt1, Ashok Panigrahy1, Miguel Reyes-Múgica1

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Pathology, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (D.B., C.M.S., M.R.M.); Department of Plastic Surgery, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (L.J.G.); Department of Radiology, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (A.P.); Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, NorthShore University HealthSystem, Northbrook, Illinois (B.S.B., D.J., V.R.); Division of Molecular Genomic Pathology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (M.N.); Department of Pediatrics and Neurology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York (Y.K.); Department of Pediatrics, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York (Y.K.).

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