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Interleukin-6 induces an epithelial-mesenchymal transition phenotype in human breast cancer cells.
Oncogene - 20 Aug 2009
Sullivan N J, Sasser A K, Axel A E, Vesuna F, Raman V, Ramirez N, Oberyszyn T M, Hall B M
Abstract excerpt
Breast tumor interleukin-6 (IL-6) levels increase with tumor grade, and elevated serum IL-6 correlates with poor breast cancer patient survival. Epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) phenotypes such as impaired E-cadherin expression or aberrant Vimentin induction are associated with enhanced metastasis and unfavorable clinical outcome in breast cancer. Despite this fact, few tumor microenvironment-derived...
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