The story of MCF-7 breast cancer cell line: 40 Years of experience in research

Anticancer Research

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 3147-3154

  Comşa, Şerban ^a   Cîmpean, Anca Maria ^a   Raica, Marius ^a  

^a VICTOR BABES UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND PHARMACY   (Romania)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Breast cancer; Lymphangiogenesis; MCF 7; Mesenchymal stem cells; Review

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CXCR4; CLAUDIN; CYTOKERATIN 18; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 2; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; HERMES ANTIGEN; INTERLEUKIN 1 RECEPTOR TYPE I; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; PROTEIN ZO1; SMOOTH MUSCLE ACTIN; UVOMORULIN; VIMENTIN;

ANGIOGENESIS; BASIC RESEARCH; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER RESEARCH; CELL DEATH; CELL INTERACTION; CELL INVASION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; EPITHELIUM CELL; HISTORY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL CULTURE; LYMPHANGIOGENESIS; MCF 7 CELL LINE; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; SPHEROID CELL; THROMBOCYTE AGGREGATION; TUMOR INVASION; BREAST TUMOR; CANCER STEM CELL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; PATHOLOGY;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; CELL PROLIFERATION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; MCF-7 CELLS; NEOPLASTIC STEM CELLS;

EID: 84931342732     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: 17917530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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