BGEN 3020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Mediastinum, Desmin, Metaphysis

• School: University of Manitoba
• Department: Biochem. and Medical Genetics
• Course: BGEN 3020
• Professor: Jason Leboe- Mcgowan

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Main difference b9 usually does not metastasize, malignant has the capacity to metastasize. Exception: b9 tumor that metastasize: invasive mole (metastasize to lungs, but goes away). If tumor secreting mineralocorticoids it is conn"s syndrome, causing atrophy of the zone glomerulosa (gfr salty sweet sex: tubular adenoma = mc precursor lesion for colon cancer (looks like strawberry on a stick) Little swirls of increased redness (bright red) called squamous pearls: glandular carcinoma round glands, with something in the middle = adenocarcinoma, transitional cell carcinoma from bladder, ureter, renal pelvis (from genital urinary tract) Excision (b9 version = nevus), both are derived from melanocytes. This is the most rapidly increasing cancer in the. They are s-100 ag + tumors aput tumors: aput tumors: s-100 ag + tumors aput tumors; aput is precursor uptake decarboxylation, meaning that they are of neurosecretory or neural crest origin.