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Breast Cancer
Reports summarize breast cancer study results from Johns Hopkins University
July 10th, 2008
According to a study from the United States, "Because tumors are characterized by hypoxic environments, we used a novel in vitro noninvasive magnetic resonance imaging assay to examine the influence of invasive MDA-MB-231 breast cancer cells on the invasion and migration of human dermal lymphatic microvascular endothelial cells (HMVEC-dLy) under normoxic and hypoxic conditions. Nonmalignant immortalized MCF-12A human mammary epithelial cells instead of cancer cells or chambers with HMVEC-dLy alone were used as controls for comparison." "HMVEC-dLy cells were labeled with a T-2 contrast agent (Feridex), and their invasion and migration through extracellular matrix under...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2008-07-10)
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