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Phenotypic heterogeneity in breast fibroblasts: functional anomaly in fibroblasts from histologically normal tissue adjacent to carcinoma.
International journal of cancer - 1 Oct 1994
Schor A M, Rushton G, Ferguson J E, Howell A, Redford J, Schor S L
Abstract excerpt
Histologically normal breast tissue was obtained from women undergoing surgery for benign breast lesions (n = 12) and mammary carcinomas (n = 15). Four fibroblast subpopulations (FI, FII, FIII and FIV) were isolated from these specimens by differential digestion and centrifugation. FI cells were the first to be released from the tissue digest and consequently assumed to be derived from the interlobular stroma;...
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