Insights from transgenic mouse models of PyMT-induced breast cancer: recapitulating human breast cancer progression in vivo

S Attalla, T Taifour, T Bui, W Muller - Oncogene, 2021 - nature.com
Breast cancer is associated with the second highest cancer-associated deaths worldwide.
Therefore, understanding the key events that determine breast cancer progression …

Mouse models of metastasis: progress and prospects

L Gómez-Cuadrado, N Tracey, R Ma… - Disease models & …, 2017 - journals.biologists.com
Metastasis is the spread of cancer cells from a primary tumor to distant sites within the body
to establish secondary tumors. Although this is an inefficient process, the consequences are …

Akt-dependent metabolic reprogramming regulates tumor cell histone acetylation

JV Lee, A Carrer, S Shah, NW Snyder, S Wei… - Cell metabolism, 2014 - cell.com
Histone acetylation plays important roles in gene regulation, DNA replication, and the
response to DNA damage, and it is frequently deregulated in tumors. We postulated that …

Breast tumor heterogeneity: source of fitness, hurdle for therapy

S Koren, M Bentires-Alj - Molecular cell, 2015 - cell.com
Tumor heterogeneity impinges on prognosis, response to therapy, and metastasis. As such,
heterogeneity is one of the most important and clinically relevant areas of cancer research …

Modelling breast cancer: one size does not fit all

T Vargo-Gogola, JM Rosen - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2007 - nature.com
Breast cancer is not a single disease, but is instead a collection of diseases that have
distinct histopathological features, genetic and genomic variability, and diverse prognostic …

[HTML][HTML] The tumor-derived cytokine Chi3l1 induces neutrophil extracellular traps that promote T cell exclusion in triple-negative breast cancer

T Taifour, SS Attalla, D Zuo, Y Gu… - Immunity, 2023 - cell.com
In triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC), stromal restriction of CD8+ T cells associates with
poor clinical outcomes and lack of responsiveness to immune-checkpoint blockade (ICB). To …

The transcriptional repressor Snail promotes mammary tumor recurrence

SE Moody, D Perez, T Pan, CJ Sarkisian… - Cancer cell, 2005 - cell.com
Breast cancer recurrence is a fundamental clinical manifestation of tumor progression and
represents the principal cause of death from this disease. Using a conditional transgenic …

Dormancy and cancer stem cells: An enigma for cancer therapeutic targeting

S Talukdar, P Bhoopathi, L Emdad, S Das… - Advances in cancer …, 2019 - Elsevier
Dormancy occurs when cells remain viable but stop proliferating. When most of a cancer
population undergoes this phenomenon, the result is called tumor dormancy, and when a …

Mouse models of breast cancer metastasis

A Fantozzi, G Christofori - Breast Cancer Research, 2006 - Springer
Metastatic spread of cancer cells is the main cause of death of breast cancer patients, and
elucidation of the molecular mechanisms underlying this process is a major focus in cancer …

Dose-dependent oncogene-induced senescence in vivo and its evasion during mammary tumorigenesis

CJ Sarkisian, BA Keister, DB Stairs, RB Boxer… - Nature cell …, 2007 - nature.com
Activating Ras mutations can induce either proliferation or senescence depending on the
cellular context. To determine whether Ras activation has context-dependent effects in the …