Project description:Transcriptional profile of MMTV-PyMT late carcinomas after adjuvant or neoadjuvant treatment with RANK-Fc (receptor activator of NF-kB) cells isolated from one single MMTV-PyMT carcinoma were orthotopically injected in syngeneic WT mice, which were randomized 1:1 for neoadjuvant RANK-Fc or mock treatment (passage 1) for 4 weeks. Cells isolated from both treatment arms were pooled and injected into the fat pad of FvB recipients (passage 2) in limiting dilutions (mimicking occult disease) and again randomized 1:1 for additional RANK-Fc (adjuvant) or mock treatment
Project description:Transcriptional profile of either RANK+/+ or RANK-/- MMTV-PyMT late carcinomas, orthotopically injected in syngeneic RANK+/+ mice. Once host mice developed tumors, CD45- tumor cells were sorted by flow cytometry in order to compare changes on tumor gene expression caused by the absence of RANK protein.
Project description:MMTV-PyMT late carcinomas, orthotopically injected in syngeneic RANK+/+ mice were digested until single cells and cultured over Matrigel in the prescence or abscence of RANKL for 24 hours.
Project description:We sequenced mammary gland samples of MMTV-PyMT mouse from 4 stages (hyperplasia at week 6, adenoma/MIN at week 8, early carcinoma at week 10, and late carcinoma with lung metastasis at week 12) during tumor progression.
Project description:We sequenced mammary gland samples of MMTV-PyMT mouse from 4 stages (hyperplasia at week 6, adenoma/MIN at week 8, early carcinoma at week 10, and late carcinoma with lung metastasis at week 12) during tumor progression.
Project description:We sequenced mammary gland samples of MMTV-PyMT mouse from 4 stages (hyperplasia at week 6, adenoma/MIN at week 8, early carcinoma at week 10, and late carcinoma with lung metastasis at week 12) during tumor progression. We sacrificed 3 PyMT (FVB background) mice and 3 FVB control mice at each of the 4 stages, extracted small RNA and performed sequencing.
Project description:The primary cause of mortality in breast cancer is metastasis, a process which is still poorly understood. To study the process of breast cancer metastasis, we isolated focal hyperplasias from the MMTV-PyMT transgenic breast cancer model and transplanted to syngeneic hosts. The transplants underwent stereotyped progression to adenoma, early carcinoma, and late carcinoma at 5, 8 and 18 weeks post-transplant, respectively. We compared the gene expression profiles of adenomas and late carcinomas by microarray. Analysis of the data revealed that the most differentially expressed gene family between adenomas and late carcinomas were luminal differentiation genes, among them GATA-3. In this report, we characterized the role of GATA-3 in breast cancer. Keywords: spotted oligonucleotide Single hyperplasias were isolated from pubertal MMTV-PyMT x B-actin-GFP mice and transplanted into syngeneic hosts. Total RNA from adenomas (5 week outgrowths) were compared to late carcinomas (18 week outgrowths).
Project description:Breast carcinoma cell invasion is thought to depend on the mobilization of the membrane-anchored matrix metalloproteinase, Mmp14/MT1-MMP, to drive the remodeling of extracellular matrix and trigger associated signaling cascades. However, the roles that this proteinase plays during breast tumor progression and invasion in vivo remain undefined. A highly penetrant syngeneic mouse model for luminal B breast cancer driven by the polyoma middle T (PyMT) antigen, in tandem with recently developed Mmp14-floxed mice and MMTV-Cre transgenics that express Cre recombinase throughout the mammary epithelial cell compartment, were used to characterize the impact of conditional Mmp14-targeting on breast carcinoma cell invasion programs in vivo. Transcriptome profiling of intact MMTV-PyMT carcinoma tumors was used to investigate the functional roles of carcinoma cell-derived MT1-MMP in MMTV-PyMT tumor progression and invasion in an unbiased fashion