Sentences with phrase «contracted precancerous lesions»

In 2004 Yinon Ben - Neriah and Eli Pikarsky of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and their colleagues reported that mice engineered to develop hepatitis (which can cause liver cancer) contracted precancerous lesions that did not progress to full malignancy when NF - kB was curtailed through a genetic alteration or when the proinflammatory TNF signaling molecule was shut off.