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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens
SUBMITTER: Manikandan Jayapal
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-36295 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Merdad Adnan A Karim Sajjad S Schulten Hans-Juergen HJ Dallol Ashraf A Buhmeida Abdelbaset A Al-Thubaity Fatima F Gari Mamdooh A MA Chaudhary Adeel Ga AG Abuzenadah Adel M AM Al-Qahtani Mohammed H MH
Anticancer research 20140301 3
<h4>Background/aim</h4>Breast cancer (BC) is the most common type of cancer in Saudi women. Matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) are endopeptidases with the ability to degrade extracellular matrix proteins. In healthy individual tissue disruption is prevented by precised regulation of MMPs; however, in cancer a number of MMPs are overexpressed causing tissue disruption and making tumor cells capable of invasion and metastasis. Invasive ductal carcinoma (IDC) of BCs are classified into grade 1 (G1), ...[more]