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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus
SUBMITTER: Solmaz Shahalizadeh
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-15632 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Cancer research 20090818 17
High levels of activated Stat3 are often found in human breast cancers and can correlate with poor patient outcome. We employed an activated ErbB2 mouse model of breast cancer to investigate the in vivo role of Stat3 in mammary tumor progression and found that Stat3 does not alter mammary tumor initiation but dramatically affects metastatic progression. Four-fold fewer animals exhibited lung metastases in the absence of Stat3 and a 12-fold reduction in the number of lung lesions was observed in ...[more]