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Hormonal carcinogenesis in breast cancer: cellular and molecular studies of malignant progression.
Breast cancer research and treatment - 1 Jan 1994
Clarke R, Skaar T, Baumann K, Leonessa F, James M, Lippman J, Thompson E W, Freter C, Brunner N
Abstract excerpt
We have established and characterized a series of variant cell lines in which to identify the critical factors associated with E2-induced malignant progression, and the acquisition to tamoxifen resistance in human breast cancer. Sublines of the hormone-dependent MCF-7 cell line (MCF7/MIII and MCF7/LCC1) form stable, invasive, estrogen independent tumors in the mammary fat pads of ovariectomized athymic nude mice....
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