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Erschienen in: Breast Cancer Research 1/2010

01.05.2010 | Poster presentation

Activin B functions downstream of BRCA1 in stem cell maintenance

verfasst von: MM Murray, N Buckley, DP Harkin

Erschienen in: Breast Cancer Research | Sonderheft 1/2010

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The cancer stem cell hypothesis proposes that tumors contain a subset of stem or progenitor cells that are resistant to chemotherapy and have evaded the normally tight control of self-renewal. BRCA1 is known to play an essential role in cancer stem cell maintenance and differentiation. In fact, breast tissue from women with germline mutations in BRCA1 show regions of increased ALDH1 positivity, a marker of stem cells. Furthermore, knockdown of BRCA1 in normal tissue from reduction mammoplasty leads to increased ALDH1 and increased stem cell number as assessed by mammosphere formation. …
Metadaten
Titel
Activin B functions downstream of BRCA1 in stem cell maintenance
verfasst von
MM Murray
N Buckley
DP Harkin
Publikationsdatum
01.05.2010
Verlag
BioMed Central
Erschienen in
Breast Cancer Research / Ausgabe Sonderheft 1/2010
Elektronische ISSN: 1465-542X
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/bcr2498

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