Novel roles of prolactin and estrogens in breast cancer: Resistance to chemotherapy

Endocrine-Related Cancer

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Lapensee, Elizabeth W ^a   Ben Jonathan, Nira ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4,4' ISOPROPYLIDENEDIPHENOL; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; AROMATASE INHIBITOR; BEVACIZUMAB; BROMOCRIPTINE; CABERGOLINE; CISPLATIN; DOXORUBICIN; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; ETOPOSIDE; FULVESTRANT; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; HORMONE RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; PACLITAXEL; PHYTOESTROGEN; PROLACTIN; PROLACTIN RECEPTOR; PROLACTIN RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; PROTEIN BCL 2; PROTEIN BCL XL; TAMOXIFEN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR RELATED APOPTOSIS INDUCING LIGAND AGONIST; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VINBLASTINE; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; PHENOL DERIVATIVE;

ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; BREAST CANCER; BREAST CARCINOGENESIS; CELL CYCLE ARREST; CYTOTOXICITY; DRUG INHIBITION; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG POTENTIATION; GENE MUTATION; HORMONE ACTION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE; APOPTOSIS; BREAST TUMOR; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG RESISTANCE; FEMALE; METABOLISM; PROTO ONCOGENE;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; APOPTOSIS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CISPLATIN; DRUG RESISTANCE, NEOPLASM; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; GENES, BCL-2; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; HUMANS; PHENOLS; PROLACTIN; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; RECEPTORS, PROLACTIN;

EID: 77953090173     PISSN: 13510088     EISSN: 14796821     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1677/ERC-09-0253     Document Type: Review

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