Article
Role of steroid hormone and growth factor receptors and proto-oncogenes in the behavior of human mammary epithelial cancer cells in vitro.
Pathobiology : journal of immunopathology, molecular and cellular biology - 1 Jan 1997
Saxena S, Jain A K, Pandey K K, Dewan A K
Abstract excerpt
The cultivation of cells from primary breast cancers is very unpredictable. The majority of breast-cancer-derived cell lines are of metastatic origin. To define the characteristics of tumor cells which govern their ability to grow in vitro as primary cultures as well as continuous or established...
Topics
- Biomarkers, Tumor
- Breast Neoplasms
- Carcinoma
- Cell Adhesion
- Cell Division
- ErbB Receptors
- Genes, erbB-2
- Glass
- Humans
- Phenotype
- Receptor, ErbB-2
- Receptors, Estrogen
- Receptors, Progesterone
- Tumor Cells, Cultured