Photodynamic Therapy-Induced Microvascular Changes in a Nonmelanoma Skin Cancer Model Assessed by Photoacoustic Microscopy and Diffuse Correlation Spectroscopy
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...beautifully illustrates the utility of monitoring vascular destruction due to PDT (66,67)....
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...Transgenic K5-Gli mice overexpress the Gli2 transcription factor in the epidermal basal layer and outer root sheath of the hair follicles, developing spontaneous basal cell carcinomas (BCC) histologically similar to human BCCs [26]....
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...Transgenic K5-Gli mice, which develop spontaneous BCCs, were acquired from Dr. Andrezj Dlugosz at the University of Michigan and bred in our domestic colony [24]....
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...Overexpression of Gli2 leads to increased activation of the Sonic hedgehog (Shh) pathway and increased activation of Shh has been associated with BCCs in both human tumors and animal models [25]....
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