Effects of estrogen on breast cancer development: Role of estrogen receptor independent mechanisms

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 127, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1748-1757

  Yue, Wei ^a   Wang, Ji Ping ^a   Li, Yuebai ^a   Fan, Ping ^a   Liu, Guijian ^a   Zhang, Nan ^a   Conaway, Mark ^a   Wang, Hongkun ^a   Korach, Kenneth S ^b   Bocchinfuso, Wayne ^b   Santen, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

breast cancer; estrogen receptor knockout; Wnt 1

Indexed keywords

AROMATASE INHIBITOR; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; FULVESTRANT; WNT1 PROTEIN; ANTIESTROGEN; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; DRUG DERIVATIVE; LETROZOLE; NITRILE; TRIAZOLE DERIVATIVE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL PROLIFERATION; FOLLICULAR PHASE; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; LUTEAL PHASE; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE; OVARIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; ANIMAL; DOSE RESPONSE; EXPERIMENTAL NEOPLASM; FEMALE; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOUSE MUTANT; PHYSIOLOGY; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CELL PROLIFERATION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN ANTAGONISTS; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMARY NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NITRILES; OVARIECTOMY; TRIAZOLES; WNT1 PROTEIN;

EID: 77956999983     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: 10970215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ijc.25207     Document Type: Article

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