Alcohol Promotes Mammary Tumor Development via the Estrogen Pathway in Estrogen Receptor Alpha-Negative HER2/neu Mice

Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 577-587

  Wong, Amy W ^a   Dunlap, Sarah M ^b   Holcomb, Valerie B ^b   Nunez, Nomeli P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

Alcohol; Breast Cancer; Estrogen; HER2 neu

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; AROMATASE; DRINKING WATER; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 2; ESTROGEN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; SEX HORMONE;

ALCOHOL BLOOD LEVEL; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST CARCINOGENESIS; BREAST EPITHELIUM; BREAST TUMOR; CANCER GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; ESTROGEN SYNTHESIS; FEMALE; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; HUMAN; MOUSE; MOUSE MAMMARY TUMOR ONCOVIRUS; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; OVARY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADIPOSITY; ANIMALS; AROMATASE; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY WEIGHT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DEPRESSANTS; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGENS; ETHANOL; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAMMARY NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; MAMMARY TUMOR VIRUS, MOUSE; MICE; OVARIECTOMY; RECEPTOR, ERBB-2; RECEPTOR, IGF TYPE 1; RETROVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TUMOR VIRUS INFECTIONS;

MOUSE MAMMARY TUMOR VIRUS; MUS; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 84859196134     PISSN: 01456008     EISSN: 15300277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1530-0277.2011.01654.x     Document Type: Article

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