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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus
SUBMITTER: Jane Holland
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-35899 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Cell reports 20131127 5
Prognosis for patients with estrogen-receptor (ER)-negative basal breast cancer is poor, and chemotherapy is currently the best therapeutic option. We have generated a compound-mutant mouse model combining the activation of β-catenin and HGF (Wnt-Met signaling), which produced rapidly growing basal mammary gland tumors. We identified the chemokine system CXCL12/CXCR4 as a crucial driver of Wnt-Met tumors, given that compound-mutant mice also deficient in the CXCR4 gene were tumor resistant. Wnt- ...[more]