A smooth muscle‐derived, Braf‐driven mouse model of gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST): evidence for an alternative GIST cell‐of‐origin
Kondo J, Huh WJ, Franklin JL, Heinrich MC, Rubin BP, Coffey RJ. A smooth muscle‐derived, Braf‐driven mouse model of gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST): evidence for an alternative GIST cell‐of‐origin. The Journal Of Pathology 2020, 252: 441-450. PMID: 32944951, PMCID: PMC7802691, DOI: 10.1002/path.5552.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsGastrointestinal stromal tumorsSmooth muscle cellsICC hyperplasiaMuscle cellsTyrosine kinase inhibitor imatinibFrequent driver eventsCommon mesenchymal tumorsSmooth muscle cell progenitorsDevelopment of GISTsKinase inhibitor imatinibLoss of Trp53ICC-DMPGut motilityStromal tumorsMesenchymal tumorsMouse modelInhibitor imatinibInterstitial cellsMutant BRAFBRAF expressionTumorsBRAFHyperplasiaCell progenitorsDriver events