Ortiz C, Morales L, Sastre M, Haskins WE, Matta J. Cytotoxicity and genotoxicity assessment of sandalwood essential oil
in human breast cell lines MCF - 7 and MCF - 10A.
Progestin effect on cell proliferation and 17 * - hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase activity in
normal human breast cells in culture.
Worse, parabens have been linked to cancer through other methods — a 2011 study confirmed that they inhibited the ability
of human breast cells to undergo the process of apoptosis, the timed cell death that prevents rapid overgrowth and proliferation.
Previous evidence for a breast cancer link has been mixed — one study found increased risk in women exposed before age 14, whereas others found no association — but in a lab dish, DDT has been shown to activate the HER2 gene
in human breast cells, which is expressed in some breast cancers.
A human breast cell lacking HOXA5 (right) shows protruding structures similar to tumor cells, compared with a normal human breast cell (left).
«IGF - 1 is known to cause malignant transformations in
human breast cells... and the implications have not been properly studied.»
Curious about the effect a virally - encoded ITAM might have on cells outside the immune system, immunologist John Monroe of the University of Pennsylvania and breast cancer researcher Jose Russo from the Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia expressed Env, a mouse virus gene that contains ITAM DNA, in mouse and
human breast cells.
Conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) up - regulates the estrogen - regulated cancer suppressor gene, protein tyrosine phosphatase gamma (PTPgama), in
human breast cells.