[Given the significant difference in gene expression profiles between normal and hTERT-immortalized fibroblasts and the close relationship between epiregulin and tumorigenesis, we conclude that hTERT-immortalized cells may not replace their normal counterparts for studies of normal cell biology and that the use of hTERT for expansion of normal human cells for therapeutic purposes must be approached with caution.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
DisGeNET evidence - LITERATURE