TOX3 is expressed in mammary ER+ epithelial cells and regulates ER target genes in luminal breast cancer

BMC Cancer

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Seksenyan, Akop ^a   Kadavallore, Asha ^a   Walts, Ann E ^a   de la Torre, Brian ^a   Berel, Dror ^a,b   Strom, Samuel P ^a,c   Aliahmad, Parinaz ^a   Funari, Vincent A ^a   Kaye, Jonathan ^a,c  

^a CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

ER target gene activation; HMG box factor; Luminal B breast cancer; Mammary epithelial progenitor; TFF1; TOX3

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; LIGAND; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR; SOMATOMEDIN C; TNRC9 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BIRC5 GENE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST EPITHELIUM CELL; CANCER CELL; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER RISK; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CXCR4 GENE; EPITHELIUM CELL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE NUMBER; GENE TARGETING; GROWTH INHIBITION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE; PATHOGENESIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TFF1 GENE; TOX3 GENE; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE; UPREGULATION; ANIMAL; BREAST TUMOR; CELL MOTION; DISEASE MODEL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; MAMMARY GLAND; METABOLISM; MORTALITY; MOUSE; PATHOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; TUMOR CELL LINE;

ANIMALS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELL MOVEMENT; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR I; LIGANDS; MAMMARY GLANDS, HUMAN; MICE; PROGNOSIS; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; RECEPTORS, PROGESTERONE;

EID: 84924059687     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712407     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12885-015-1018-2     Document Type: Article

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