• the first Trk receptor, which regulates synaptic strength and plasticity in neurons, was originally identified as part of a fusion gene with the cytoskeletal protein tropomyosin, forming an oncogene in colon and thyroid cancers?

Facts on topics related to Colorectal cancer

Coeliac disease

• tissue transglutaminase antibody testing has superseded all older blood tests in the diagnosis of coeliac disease?

Hepatitis

• liver biopsy (obtaining a tissue sample from the liver) is sometimes needed in unexplained forms of hepatitis?
• poor performance in the twilight of the career of Graham McKenzie, Australia's leading pace bowler of the 1960s, led to mistaken fears that he had contracted hepatitis?

Human gastrointestinal tract

• microcystins in the polluted water of the lake at Grand Lake St. Marys State Park in Ohio can cause severe gastrointestinal ailments in humans?