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Susceptibility to estrogen-induced mammary cancer segregates as an incompletely dominant phenotype in reciprocal crosses between the ACI and Copenhagen rat strains.
Endocrinology - 1 Dec 2001
Shull J D, Pennington K L, Reindl T M, Snyder M C, Strecker T E, Spady T J, Tochacek M, McComb R D
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Estrogens have been inextricably linked to the etiology of breast cancer. We have demonstrated that the female ACI rat exhibits a unique propensity to develop mammary cancers when treated continuously with physiological levels of 17 beta-estradiol (E2). The E2-induced mammary cancers are estrogen dependent and exhibit genomic instability. In contrast, the genetically related Copenhagen (COP) rat strain is...
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