Evaluation of early post-natal pig mammary gland development and human breast cancer gene expression
| Autor: | Amber Stone, Shelby Smith, Farzana Ferdous, Thomas R. Scott, Hannah Oswalt, Lewis Vaughan, Heather W. Dunn |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Swine
Mammary gland Cancer Model Vimentin Breast Neoplasms Breast cancer Mammary Glands Animal medicine Animals Humans Lung cancer Molecular Biology biology Cancer Cell Biology medicine.disease Metastatic breast cancer Neoplasm Proteins Gene Expression Regulation Neoplastic medicine.anatomical_structure Animals Newborn biology.protein Cancer research Female Stem cell Developmental Biology |
| Zdroj: | Developmental biology. 481 |
| ISSN: | 1095-564X |
| Popis: | Breast cancer is the second leading cause of death in women after lung cancer, and only 5% of patients with metastatic breast cancer survive beyond ten years of diagnosis. Considering the heterogeneous subclasses of breast cancer, current cancer models have shortfalls due to copy number variants, and genetic differences of humans and immunocompromised animal models. Preclinical studies indicate stem cell activity in early post-natal mammary development may be reactivated in the human adult as a trigger to initiate cell proliferation leading to breast cancer. The goal of the work reported herein was to compare genetic expression of early development, post-natal pig mammary glands to the literature reported genes implicated in different subclasses of human breast cancer. Differentially expressed genes associated with breast cancer and present in early developing pig samples include NUCB2, ANGPTL4 and ACE. Histological staining confirmed E-cadherin, Vimentin, N-cadherin, and Claudin-1, which are all implicated in malignant cancer. Due to the homology of gene expression patterns in the developing pig mammary gland and reported genes in human breast cancer profiles, this research is worthy of further study to address a potential model using mammary development cues to unravel breast cancer biology. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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