Stromal characteristics may hold the key to mammographic density: The evidence to date

Oncotarget

Volumn 7, Issue 21, 2016, Pages 31550-31562

  Ironside, Alastair J ^a   Louise Jones, J ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Collagen; Extracellular matrix; Mammographic density; Stroma

Indexed keywords

CD36 ANTIGEN; COLLAGEN; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 4,5 BISPHOSPHATE; PROTEIN LYSINE 6 OXIDASE;

ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; BONE DENSITY; BREAST; BREAST CANCER; BREAST DENSITY; BREAST EPITHELIUM CELL; CANCER RISK; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; CARCINOGENICITY; CELL FUNCTION; CROSS LINKING; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MAMMOGRAPHY; MITOGENESIS; MUTAGENESIS; MYOFIBROBLAST; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STROMA CELL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BREAST TUMOR; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RISK FACTOR; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BREAST; BREAST DENSITY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RISK FACTORS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STROMAL CELLS;

EID: 84971505194     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19492553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18632/oncotarget.6912     Document Type: Article

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