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(American Journal of Pathology. 2002;161:1087-1097.)
© 2002 American Society for Investigative Pathology


Animal Model

Pathway Pathology

Histological Differences Between ErbB/Ras and Wnt Pathway Transgenic Mammary Tumors

Andrea Rosner*, Keiko Miyoshi{dagger}{ddagger}, Esther Landesman-Bollag§, Xin Xu§, David C. Seldin§, Amy R. Moser, Carol L. MacLeod||, G. Shyamala**, Amy E. Gillgrass{dagger}{dagger} and Robert D. Cardiff*

From the Center for Comparative Medicine,* University of California, Davis, California; the Laboratory of Genetics and Physiology,{dagger} National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland; the Department of Biochemistry,{ddagger} School of Dentistry, the University of Tokushima, Tokushima, Japan; Boston University, School of Medicine,§ Boston, Massachusetts; the Department of Human Oncology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin; the Department of Medicine, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin; the Department of Medicine,|| Cancer Center, School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California; the Division of Life Sciences,** Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, California; and the Department of Medical Sciences,{dagger}{dagger} McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

To study phenotype-genotype correlations, ErbB/Ras pathway tumors (transgenic for ErbB2, c-Neu, mutants of c-Neu, polyomavirus middle T antigene (PyV-mT), Ras, and bi-transgenic for ErbB2/Neu with ErbB3 and with progesterone receptor) from four different institutions were histopathologically compared with Wnt pathway tumors [transgenes Wnt1, Wnt10b, dominant-negative glycogen synthase kinase 3-ß, ß-Catenin, and spontaneous mutants of adenomatous polyposis coli gene (Apc)]. ErbB/Ras pathway tumors tend to form solid nodules consisting of poorly differentiated cells with abundant cytoplasm. ErbB/Ras pathway tumors also have scanty stroma and lack myoepithelial or squamous differentiation. In contrast, Wnt pathway tumors exhibit myoepithelial, acinar, or glandular differentiation, and, frequently, combinations of these. Squamous metaplasia is frequent and may include transdifferentiation to epidermal and pilar structures. Most Wnt pathway tumors form caricatures of elongated, branched ductules, and have well-developed stroma, inflammatory infiltrates, and pushing margins. Tumors transgenic for interacting genes such as protein kinase CK2{alpha} (casein kinase II{alpha}), and the fibroblast growth factors (Fgf) Int2/Fgf3 or keratinocyte growth factor (Kgf/Fgf7) also have the Wnt pathway phenotype. Because the tumors from the ErbB/Ras and the Wnt pathway are so distinct and can be readily identified using routine hematoxylin and eosin sections, we suggest that pathway pathology is applicable in both basic and clinical cancer research.



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