The mammary cellular hierarchy and breast cancer

Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences

Volumn 71, Issue 22, 2014, Pages 4301-4324

  Oakes, Samantha R ^a,b   Gallego Ortega, David ^a,b   Ormandy, Christopher J ^a,b  

^a GARVAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Breast; Cancer therapy; Cell of origin; Lineage tracing; Mammary; Tumor heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

AROMATASE INHIBITOR; TAMOXIFEN; TRASTUZUMAB; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

BREAST CANCER; BREAST CARCINOGENESIS; BREAST DEVELOPMENT; BREAST EPITHELIUM; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER HORMONE THERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STEM CELL; CELL FATE; CELL ISOLATION; CELL NUCLEUS; CYTOPLASM; DRUG EFFICACY; HEMATOPOIETIC CELL; HUMAN; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CELL LINEAGE; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECTS; FEMALE; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; MAMMARY GLAND; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; STEM CELL;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CELL LINEAGE; FEMALE; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; HUMANS; MAMMARY GLANDS, HUMAN; NEOPLASTIC STEM CELLS; STEM CELLS;

EID: 84925286276     PISSN: 1420682X     EISSN: 14209071     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00018-014-1674-4     Document Type: Review

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