Sentences with phrase «human breast cancer samples»

Primary human breast cancer samples were obtained from the Dana - Farber Cancer Institute with patients» consent and institutional review board approval.

Recent reports show increased CSC activity following hypoxic exposure in breast cancer cell lines (18 — 20), but no reports have studied this rare population in primary human breast cancer samples.

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Using all the existing data that was available, Andrechek, along with MSU doctoral student Daniel Hollern, analyzed 1,172 mouse mammary tumor samples from 26 different preclinical models and was able to compile one of the largest databases to show which strains of mice were best suited to study a particular type of human breast cancer.

As a next step, Guha, Avadhani and colleagues plan to extend this study to in vivo mouse models and will also investigate these mechanisms in tumor samples from human breast cancer patients.

Originated 1970s by Dr. Henry Lemon, who tested estrogen levels in 24 hour urine samples and found that an EQ > 1 strongly correlated with a higher survival rate after breast cancer.24 Further research conducted by Lemon, Heidel, et al., a meta - analysis of published fractional estrogen excretion collected from 2,846 healthy women worldwide aged 15 to 59 years, with a risk of breast cancer varying five-fold, found that an EQ < 1 reflects increased rates of oxidation of estrone or estradiol to 4 - OH catechols (also referred to in the literature as the 3,4 - catechol estrogen quinones), which have been identified as the principal proximal human mammary carcinogens after menarche, while an EQ > 1 reflects conversion to protective 2 - OH estrogen metabolites.2526