[There was no detectable expression of another GDNF receptor component, a glycosyl-phosphatidylinositol-linked receptor (GFR alpha-1), in pancreatic-cancer cell lines, suggesting that the neural invasion of pancreatic-cancer cells spreads along a concentration gradient of GDNF produced from peripheral ganglions through direct interaction of GDNF with its receptor, the c-ret proto-oncogene product.]. 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