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Hormonal regulation of the c-fms proto-oncogene in breast cancer cells is mediated by a composite glucocorticoid response element.
Journal of cellular biochemistry - 1 Jan 2002
Flick Maryann B, Sapi Eva, Kacinski Barry M
Abstract excerpt
We have previously reported that glucocorticoids markedly increase and anti-glucocorticoids (such as RU-486) block c-fms RNA and protein expression in some breast cancer cell lines, but not in others, and that this increase is the consequence of increased transcription from the first, epithelial cell-specific promoter of the c-fms gene (encoding CSF-1R, macrophage colony-stimulating factor receptor). Employing...
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