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Breast Cancer
Research reports on breast cancer from Boston University, Medical Department provide new insights
January 8th, 2009
According to a study from the United States, "Suppression of tumorigenicity 18 (ST18) and the homologues neural zinc-finger protein-3 (NZF3) and myelin transcription factor 3 (Myt3) are transcription factors with unknown function. Previous studies have established that they repress transcription of a synthetic reporter construct consisting of the consensus sequence AAAGTTT linked to the thymidine kinase promoter." "In addition, ST18 exhibits significantly reduced expression in breast cancer and breast cancer cell lines. We report here for the first time evidence that ST18 mediates tumor necrosis factor (TNF) -alpha induced mRNA levels of proapoptotic and proinflammatory...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2009-01-08)
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