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Differential isolation of normal luminal mammary epithelial cells and breast cancer cells from primary and metastatic sites using selective media.
Cancer research - 1 Feb 1993
Ethier S P, Mahacek M L, Gullick W J, Frank T S, Weber B L
Abstract excerpt
The present studies were aimed at determining if the use of a cell culture medium that supports proliferation of human mammary epithelial cells of the luminal lineage would allow routine isolation of breast cancer cells from primary and metastatic tumor specimens. Results obtained with mammary epithelial cells derived from reduction mammoplasty specimens and primary breast carcinomas indicated that growth of...
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