Article
Macrophages regulate the angiogenic switch in a mouse model of breast cancer.
Cancer research - 1 Dec 2006
Lin Elaine Y, Li Jiu-Feng, Gnatovskiy Leoid, Deng Yan, Zhu Liyin, Grzesik Dustin A, Qian Hong, Xue Xiao-nan, Pollard Jeffrey W
Abstract excerpt
The development of a tumor vasculature or access to the host vasculature is a crucial step for the survival and metastasis of malignant tumors. Although therapeutic strategies attempting to inhibit this step during tumor development are being developed, the biological regulation of this process is still largely unknown. Using a transgenic mouse susceptible to mammary cancer, PyMT mice, we have characterized the...
Topics
- Animals
- Blood Vessels
- Disease Progression
- Genotype
- Green Fluorescent Proteins
- Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor
- Macrophages
- Mammary Neoplasms, Animal
- Mice
- Mice, Knockout
- Mice, Transgenic
- Neovascularization, Pathologic
- Receptor, Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor
