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Endothelial cell migration and vascular endothelial growth factor expression are the result of loss of breast tissue polarity.
Cancer research - 15 Aug 2009
Chen Amy, Cuevas Ileana, Kenny Paraic A, Miyake Hiroshi, Mace Kimberley, Ghajar Cyrus, Boudreau Aaron, Bissell Mina J, Bissell Mina, Boudreau Nancy
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Recruiting a new blood supply is a rate-limiting step in tumor progression. In a three-dimensional model of breast carcinogenesis, disorganized, proliferative transformed breast epithelial cells express significantly higher expression of angiogenic genes compared with their polarized, growth-arrested nonmalignant counterparts. Elevated vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) secretion by malignant cells...
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