Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor γ ligands inhibit estrogen biosynthesis in human breast adipose tissue: Possible implications for breast cancer therapy

Cancer Research

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1604-1608

  Rubin, Gary L ^a   Zhao, Ying ^b   Kalus, Allan M ^c   Simpson, Evan R ^a  

^a HUDSON INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Plastic and Aesthetic Surgery Centre   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATASE; AROMATASE INHIBITOR; PEROXISOME PROLIFERATOR ACTIVATED RECEPTOR; ROSIGLITAZONE; TROGLITAZONE;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST CARCINOGENESIS; ESTROGEN SYNTHESIS; FEMALE; HORMONAL CARCINOGENESIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ANIMALS; AROMATASE; AROMATASE INHIBITORS; BINDING, COMPETITIVE; BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CELL LINE; CELLS, CULTURED; CHROMANS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; HUMANS; LIGANDS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROSTAGLANDIN D2; RECEPTORS, CYTOPLASMIC AND NUCLEAR; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; STROMAL CELLS; THIAZOLES; THIAZOLIDINEDIONES; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0034654120     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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