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SUBMITTER: Fitzgerald DP
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3254209 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Fitzgerald Daniel P DP Subramanian Preeti P Deshpande Monika M Graves Christian C Gordon Ira I Qian Yongzhen Y Snitkovsky Yeva Y Liewehr David J DJ Steinberg Seth M SM Paltán-Ortiz José D JD Herman Mary M MM Camphausen Kevin K Palmieri Diane D Becerra S Patricia SP Steeg Patricia S PS
Cancer research 20120101 1
Brain metastases are a significant cause of morbidity and mortality for patients with cancer, yet preventative and therapeutic options remain an unmet need. The cytokine pigment epithelium-derived factor (PEDF) is downregulated in resected human brain metastases of breast cancer compared with primary breast tumors, suggesting that restoring its expression might limit metastatic spread. Here, we show that outgrowth of large experimental brain metastases from human 231-BR or murine 4T1-BR breast c ...[more]