Article
Biological effects of stable overexpression of aromatase in human hormone-dependent breast cancer cells.
British journal of cancer - 1 Jan 1994
Macaulay V M, Nicholls J E, Gledhill J, Rowlands M G, Dowsett M, Ashworth A
Abstract excerpt
Aromatase is a key enzyme in the conversion of androstenedione and testosterone to oestrone and oestradiol. Intratumoral aromatase activity is expressed by around 70% of breast carcinomas, but it is not clear what effect this has on the tumour phenotype. To address this question we expressed huma...
Topics
- Animals
- Aromatase
- Base Sequence
- Breast Neoplasms
- CHO Cells
- Cricetinae
- DNA, Complementary
- Enzyme Stability
- Gene Expression
- Humans
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Neoplasms, Hormone-Dependent
