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Tumour cell membrane laminin expression is associated with basal-like phenotype and poor survival in Nigerian breast cancer.
The Malaysian journal of pathology - 1 Aug 2016
Agboola A O J, Ebili H O, Iyawe V O, Banjo A A F, Salami B S, Rakha E A, Nolan C, Ellis I O, Green A R
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INTRODUCTION: Laminin is a glycoprotein with diverse functions in carcinogenesis including cell proliferation, invasion, metastases and epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT). In breast cancer (BC) laminin expression is speculated to be associated with unfavourable clinicopathological and molecular characteristics. We hypothesize that laminin expression would contributed to the aggressive nature of basal like...
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