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Effects of arsenite on estrogen receptor-alpha expression and activity in MCF-7 breast cancer cells.
Endocrinology - 1 Oct 2000
Stoica A, Pentecost E, Martin M B
Abstract excerpt
To determine whether arsenite has estrogen-like activities, the effects of this compound on estrogen receptor-alpha (ERalpha) and other estrogen-regulated genes were measured in the human breast cancer cell line MCF-7. Treatment of cells with 1 microM arsenite resulted in a 60% decrease in the amount of ERalpha and in a parallel decrease of 40% in ERalpha messenger RNA. Progesterone receptor concentration...
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