Bisphenol A induces gene expression changes and proliferative effects through GPER in breast cancer cells and cancer-associated fibroblasts

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 120, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1177-1182

  Pupo, Marco ^a   Pisano, Assunta ^a   Lappano, Rosamaria ^a   Santolla, Maria Francesca ^a   de Francesco, Ernestina Marianna ^a   Abonante, Sergio ^b   Rosano, Camillo ^c   Maggiolini, Marcello ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

^b Regional Hospital   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bisphenol A; Breast cancer cells; Cancer associated fibroblasts; GPR30 GPER; Tumor microenvironment

Indexed keywords

4, 4' ISOPROPYLIDENEDIPHENOL; CONNECTIVE TISSUE GROWTH FACTOR; EARLY GROWTH RESPONSE FACTOR 1; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER ASSOCIATED FIBROBLAST; CANCER GROWTH; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FIBROBLAST; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; ONCOGENE C FOS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WESTERN BLOTTING; WOUND HEALING;

BENZHYDRYL COMPOUNDS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CELL PROLIFERATION; FEMALE; FIBROBLASTS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; HUMANS; PHENOLS; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 84864755972     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1104526     Document Type: Article

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