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Multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1 knockout mice develop parathyroid, pancreatic, pituitary and adrenal tumours with hypercalcaemia, hypophosphataemia and hypercorticosteronaemia

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ENDOCRINE-RELATED CANCER
Volume 16, Issue 4, Pages 1313-1327

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BIOSCIENTIFICA LTD
DOI: 10.1677/ERC-09-0082

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  1. Medical Research Council, UK [G9825289]
  2. Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology [BD/12415/2003]
  3. Medical Research Council [MC_UP_1502/1, MC_U142670371, G9825289, G0501780] Funding Source: researchfish
  4. National Institute for Health Research [CL-2009-13-001] Funding Source: researchfish
  5. MRC [G9825289, G0501780, MC_U142670371, MC_UP_1502/1] Funding Source: UKRI

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Multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1 (MEN1) is an autosomal dominant disorder characterized in man by parathyroid, pancreatic, pituitary and adrenal tumours The MEN1 gene encodes a 610-amino acid protein (menin) which is a tumour suppressor. To investigate the in vivo role of menin, we developed a mouse model, by deleting Men1 exons 1 and 2 and investigated this for MEN1-associated tumours and serum abnormalities. Men1(+/-) mice were viable and fertile, and 220 Men1(+/-) and 94 Men1(+/+) mice were studied between the ages of 3 and 21 months Survival in Men1(+/-) mice was significantly lower than in Men1(+/+) mice(<68%vs >85%, P<0.01). Men1(+/-) mice developed, by 9 months of age, parathyroid hyperplasia, pancreatic tumours which were mostly insulinomas, by 12 months of age, pituitary tumours which were mostly prolactinomas, and by 15 months parathyroid adenomas and adrenal cortical tumours Loss of heterozygosity and menin expression was demonstrated in the tumours, consistent with a tumour suppressor role for the Men1 gene Men1(+/-) mice with parathyroid neoplasms were hypercalcaemic and hypophosphataemic, with inappropriately normal serum parathyroid hormone concentrations. Pancreatic and pituitary tumours expressed chromogranin A (CgA), somatostatin receptor type 2 and vascular endothelial growth factor-A. Serum CgA concentrations in Men1(+/-) mice were not elevated. Adrenocortical tumours, which immunostained for 3-beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase, developed in seven Men1(+/-) mice, but resulted in hypercorticosteronaemia in one out of the four mice that were investigated. Thus, these Men1(+/-) mice are representative of MEN1 in man, and will help in investigating molecular mechanisms and treatments for endocrine tumours Endocrine-Related Cancer (2009) 16 1313-1327

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