University thesis:
Dissertation, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, 2023
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Description:
To study the role of the Hedgehog-Patched (Hh/Ptch) signaling pathway in T-cells, the two-step DMBA/TPA carcinogenesis protocol have been applied to mice with an homozygous Ptch depletion in CD4-expressing cell (Ptch flox/flox CD4Cre+/-). This approach revealed that beside the typically DMBA/TPA-induced papilloma and squamous cell carcinoma also basal cell carcinoma developed in Ptch flox/flox CD4Cre+/- mice. These basal cell carcinoma derive from CD4+ cells of the murine skin that are characterized by their expression of the keratinocyte marker CD49f and the stem cell markers CD34 and Sca1...