Phenotypic heterogeneity in breast fibroblasts: functional anomaly in fibroblasts from histologically normal tissue adjacent to carcinoma.

doi:10.1002/ijc.2910590107

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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

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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...

Topics

Adipose Tissue
Adolescent
Adult
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Breast
Breast Neoplasms
Cell Count
Cell Division
Cell Movement
Female
Fibroblasts
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Phenotype
Skin

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