Breast Cancer
Research from University of Ulsan, Medical Department in breast cancer provides new insights
Published in Women's Health Weekly, January 13th, 2011
2011 JAN 13 -- According to recent research from Seoul, South Korea, "Treatment of MCF-7 cells with tamoxifen induced vacuole formation and cell death. Levels of the autophagy marker, microtubule-associated protein light chain 3 (LC3)-II also increased, and GFP-LC3 accumulated in and around vacuoles in MCF-7 cells exposed to tamoxifen, indicating that autophagy is involved in tamoxifen-induced changes."
"Live-cell confocal microscopy with FluoZin-3 staining and transmission electron microscopy with autometallographic staining revealed that labile zinc(II) ion (Zn2+) accumulated in most acidic LC3(+) autophagic vacuoles (AVs). Chelation of Zn2+ with...
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