The story of MCF-7 breast cancer cell line: 40 years of experience in research

Ş Comşa, AM Cimpean, M Raica - Anticancer research, 2015 - ar.iiarjournals.org
Breast cancer is the most frequent malignancy in females. Due to its major impact on
population, this disease represents a critical public health problem that requires further …

The new biology of estrogen-induced apoptosis applied to treat and prevent breast cancer

VC Jordan - Endocrine-related cancer, 2014 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The successful use of high dose synthetic estrogens to treat post-menopausal metastatic
breast cancer, is the first effective “chemical therapy” proven in clinical trial to treat any …

MCF-7 cells—changing the course of breast cancer research and care for 45 years

AV Lee, S Oesterreich… - Journal of the National …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
It is 45 years since a pleural effusion from a patient with metastatic breast cancer led to the
generation of the MCF-7 breast cancer cell line. MCF-7 is the most studied human breast …

Concanavalin-A shows synergistic cytotoxicity with tamoxifen via inducing apoptosis in estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer: In vitro and molecular docking …

M Elshal, N Eid, I El-Sayed, W El-Sayed… - Pharmaceutical …, 2021 - ps.tbzmed.ac.ir
Background: Tamoxifen (TAM) is the main treatment of estrogen receptor (ER)-positive
breast cancer, however; its adverse effects and development of resistance hinder its use …

Design, synthesis, anticancer activity and docking studies of novel quinazoline-based thiazole derivatives as EGFR kinase inhibitors

MS Raghu, HA Swarup, T Shamala, BS Prathibha… - Heliyon, 2023 - cell.com
The in vitro anticancer efficacy of a new series of quinazoline-based thiazole derivatives was
explored. Three cancer cell lines, MCF-7, HepG2, and A548, as well as the normal Vero cell …

The central contributions of breast cancer stem cells in developing resistance to endocrine therapy in estrogen receptor (ER)-positive breast cancer

D Rodriguez, M Ramkairsingh, X Lin, A Kapoor… - Cancers, 2019 - mdpi.com
Breast cancer stem cells (BCSC) play critical roles in the acquisition of resistance to
endocrine therapy in estrogen receptor (ER)-positive (ER+ ve) breast cancer (BC). The …

[HTML][HTML] Genetic variability in a frozen batch of MCF-7 cells invisible in routine authentication affecting cell function

A Kleensang, MM Vantangoli, S Odwin-DaCosta… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Common recommendations for cell line authentication, annotation and quality control fall
short addressing genetic heterogeneity. Within the Human Toxome Project, we demonstrate …

Targeting the androgen receptor in breast cancer

KM Chia, M O'Brien, M Brown, E Lim - Current oncology reports, 2015 - Springer
The androgen receptor (AR) is expressed in the majority of breast cancer and across the
three main breast cancer subtypes. Historically, the oncogenic role of AR has best been …

Unconventional isoquinoline-based SERMs elicit fulvestrant-like transcriptional programs in ER+ breast cancer cells

GR Hancock, KS Young, DJ Hosfield, C Joiner… - NPJ Breast …, 2022 - nature.com
Estrogen receptor alpha (ERα) is a ligand-dependent master transcriptional regulator and
key driver of breast cancer pathology. Small molecule hormones and competitive …

Splicing factor ESRP1 controls ER‐positive breast cancer by altering metabolic pathways

Y Gökmen‐Polar, Y Neelamraju, CP Goswami, Y Gu… - EMBO …, 2019 - embopress.org
The epithelial splicing regulatory proteins 1 and 2 (ESRP 1 and ESRP 2) control the
epithelial‐to‐mesenchymal transition (EMT) splicing program in cancer. However, their role …