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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens
SUBMITTER: Richard Iggo
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-6548 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Breast cancer research : BCR 20070101 3
<h4>Introduction</h4>About 70% of breast cancers express oestrogen receptor alpha (ESR1/ERalpha) and are oestrogen-dependent for growth. In contrast with the highly proliferative nature of ERalpha-positive tumour cells, ERalpha-positive cells in normal breast tissue rarely proliferate. Because ERalpha expression is rapidly lost when normal human mammary epithelial cells (HMECs) are grown in vitro, breast cancer models derived from HMECs are ERalpha-negative. Currently only tumour cell lines are ...[more]