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Breast Cancer Research

Issue 5/2012

Content (29 Articles)

Editorial

Retinoids and breast cancer: new clues to increase their activity and selectivity

Enrico Garattini, Gabriela Paroni, Mineko Terao

Open Access Research article

High TWIST1 mRNA expression is associated with poor prognosis in lymph node-negative and estrogen receptor-positive human breast cancer and is co-expressed with stromal as well as ECM related genes

Muhammad Riaz, Anieta M Sieuwerts, Maxime P Look, Mieke A Timmermans, Marcel Smid, John A Foekens, John WM Martens

Open Access Research article

A novel function for p21Cip1 and acetyltransferase p/CAF as critical transcriptional regulators of TGFβ-mediated breast cancer cell migration and invasion

Meiou Dai, Amal A Al-Odaini, Ani Arakelian, Shafaat A Rabbani, Suhad Ali, Jean-Jacques Lebrun

Review

Oral low dose and topical tamoxifen for breast cancer prevention: modern approaches for an old drug

Matteo Lazzeroni, Davide Serrano, Barbara K Dunn, Brandy M Heckman-Stoddard, Oukseub Lee, Seema Khan, Andrea Decensi

Viewpoint

Who's driving anyway? Herculean efforts to identify the drivers of breast cancer

Ryan J Hartmaier, Nolan Priedigkeit, Adrian V Lee

Open Access Research article

Effectiveness and molecular interactions of the clinically active mTORC1 inhibitor everolimus in combination with tamoxifen or letrozole in vitro and in vivo

Lesley-Ann Martin, Sunil Pancholi, Ian Farmer, Stephanie Guest, Ricardo Ribas, Marion T Weigel, Allan M Thornhill, Zara Ghazoui, Roger A'Hern, Dean B Evans, Heidi A Lane, Stephen R Johnston, Mitch Dowsett

Open Access Research article

Ets-1 is a transcriptional mediator of oncogenic nitric oxide signaling in estrogen receptor-negative breast cancer

Christopher H Switzer, Robert Y-S Cheng, Lisa A Ridnour, Sharon A Glynn, Stefan Ambs, David A Wink

Open Access Research article

Impact of hormone receptor status on patterns of recurrence and clinical outcomes among patients with human epidermal growth factor-2-positive breast cancer in the National Comprehensive Cancer Network: a prospective cohort study

Ines Vaz-Luis, Rebecca A Ottesen, Melissa E Hughes, P Kelly Marcom, Beverly Moy, Hope S Rugo, Richard L Theriault, John Wilson, Joyce C Niland, Jane C Weeks, Nancy U Lin

Open Access Research article

Low levels of Stat5a protein in breast cancer are associated with tumor progression and unfavorable clinical outcomes

Amy R Peck, Agnieszka K Witkiewicz, Chengbao Liu, Alexander C Klimowicz, Ginger A Stringer, Edward Pequignot, Boris Freydin, Ning Yang, Adam Ertel, Thai H Tran, Melanie A Girondo, Anne L Rosenberg, Jeffrey A Hooke, Albert J Kovatich, Craig D Shriver, David L Rimm, Anthony M Magliocco, Terry Hyslop, Hallgeir Rui

Open Access Research article

Co-expression of HER2 and HER3 receptor tyrosine kinases enhances invasion of breast cells via stimulation of interleukin-8 autocrine secretion

Nicola Aceto, Stephan Duss, Gwen MacDonald, Dominique S Meyer, Tim-C Roloff, Nancy E Hynes, Mohamed Bentires-Alj

Open Access Research article

Polymorphisms in hormone metabolism and growth factor genes and mammographic density in Norwegian postmenopausal hormone therapy users and non-users

Merete Ellingjord-Dale, Eunjung Lee, Elisabeth Couto, Ali Ozhand, Samera Azeem Qureshi, Solveig Hofvind, David J Van Den Berg, Lars A Akslen, Tom Grotmol, Giske Ursin

Open Access Research article

Breast vibro-acoustography: initial results show promise

Azra Alizad, Dana H Whaley, Matthew W Urban, Rickey E Carter, Randall R Kinnick, James F Greenleaf, Mostafa Fatemi

Open Access Research article

Vascular endothelial growth factor receptor-1 mRNA overexpression in peripheral blood as a useful prognostic marker in breast cancer

Yoshimasa Kosaka, Akemi Kataoka, Hiroshi Yamaguchi, Hiroaki Ueo, Sayuri Akiyoshi, Norihiko Sengoku, Masaru Kuranami, Shinji Ohno, Masahiko Watanabe, Koshi Mimori, Masaki Mori

Open Access Research article

Selective gene-expression profiling of migratory tumor cells in vivo predicts clinical outcome in breast cancer patients

Antonia Patsialou, Yarong Wang, Juan Lin, Kathleen Whitney, Sumanta Goswami, Paraic A Kenny, John S Condeelis

Open Access Research article

Quantitative assessment of invasive mena isoforms (Menacalc) as an independent prognostic marker in breast cancer

Seema Agarwal, Frank B Gertler, Michele Balsamo, John S Condeelis, Robert L Camp, Xiaonan Xue, Juan Lin, Thomas E Rohan, David L Rimm

Open Access Research article

Circulating tumor cells, disease recurrence and survival in newly diagnosed breast cancer

Bas Franken, Marco R de Groot, Walter JB Mastboom, Istvan Vermes, Job van der Palen, Arjan GJ Tibbe, Leon WMM Terstappen

Open Access Research article

Sex hormone changes during weight loss and maintenance in overweight and obese postmenopausal African-American and non-African-American women

Rachael Z Stolzenberg-Solomon, Roni T Falk, Frank Stanczyk, Robert N Hoover, Lawrence J Appel, Jamy D Ard, Bryan C Batch, Janelle Coughlin, Xu Han, Lillian F Lien, Christina M Pinkston, Laura P Svetkey, Hormuzd A Katki

Open Access Research article

Phenotypic and functional characterisation of the luminal cell hierarchy of the mammary gland

Mona Shehata, Andrew Teschendorff, Gemma Sharp, Nikola Novcic, I Alasdair Russell, Stefanie Avril, Michael Prater, Peter Eirew, Carlos Caldas, Christine J Watson, John Stingl

Open Access Research article

p130Cas/Cyclooxygenase-2 axis in the control of mesenchymal plasticity of breast cancer cells

Brigitte Bisaro, Maura Montani, Georgia Konstantinidou, Cristina Marchini, Lucia Pietrella, Manuela Iezzi, Mirco Galiè, Francesca Orso, Annalisa Camporeale, Shana M Colombo, Paola Di Stefano, Giusy Tornillo, Maria P Camacho-Leal, Emilia Turco, Daniela Taverna, Sara Cabodi, Augusto Amici, Paola Defilippi

Open Access Research article

NOTCH1 inhibition in vivo results in mammary tumor regression and reduced mammary tumorsphere-forming activity in vitro

Matthew J Simmons, Ryan Serra, Nicole Hermance, Michelle A Kelliher

Open Access Research article

High expression of QSOX1 reduces tumorogenesis, and is associated with a better outcome for breast cancer patients

Nicolas Pernodet, François Hermetet, Pascale Adami, Anne Vejux, Françoise Descotes, Christophe Borg, Marjorie Adams, Jean-René Pallandre, Gabriel Viennet, Frédéric Esnard, Michèle Jouvenot, Gilles Despouy

Open Access Research article

Aberrations in translational regulation are associated with poor prognosis in hormone receptor-positive breast cancer

Funda Meric-Bernstam, Huiqin Chen, Argun Akcakanat, Kim-Anh Do, Ana Lluch, Bryan T Hennessy, Gabriel N Hortobagyi, Gordon B Mills, Ana Maria Gonzalez-Angulo

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