mortality/aging
• Ad-Cre treated mice show 50% survival at 57 weeks of age compared to 33 weeks of age in single Kras heterozygous controls, indicating an almost 100% increase in survival
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neoplasm
• 6 months following intratracheal instillation of adenovirus expressing Cre-recombinase (Ad-Cre), only a few tumors are observed; tumors that are present carry unrecombined Map2k1 alleles and express normal levels of Map2k1
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