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Establishment of a novel orthotopic model of breast cancer metastasis to the lung

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    • Wenli Guo
    • Shuping Zhang
    • Sijin Liu
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    Affiliations: State Key Laboratory of Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology, Research Center for Eco‑Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, P.R. China, Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
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    Published online on: April 27, 2015
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Breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer-related death among women, and distant metastasis is responsible for the death of ~90% of these patients. However, despite recent advances, the underlying mechanisms responsible for breast cancer metastasis remain elusive. A great impediment to this is the lack of appropriate orthotopic models of breast cancer metastasis to distant organs. In the present study, we established a novel orthotopic model of breast cancer metastasis to the lungs in mice, where metastatic sublines of 4T1 cells revealed enhanced metastatic propensity to the lungs. All mice (100%) developed lung metastasis upon orthotopic implantation of a metastatic subline of 4T1 cells, in contrast to 10% of mice with lung metastasis for a subline derived from primary tumors and 60% of mice with lung metastasis for parental 4T1 cells. At the molecular level, significant epithelial-mesenchymal transition was characterized in these metastatic sublines, which is likely at least partially, responsible for the enhanced metastasis. These established cell lines provide a novel platform to study the relevant molecular basis of metastasis and metastasis-specific therapeutics.
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Guo, W., Zhang, S., & Liu, S. (2015). Establishment of a novel orthotopic model of breast cancer metastasis to the lung. Oncology Reports, 33, 2992-2998. https://doi.org/10.3892/or.2015.3927
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Guo, W., Zhang, S., Liu, S."Establishment of a novel orthotopic model of breast cancer metastasis to the lung". Oncology Reports 33, no. 6 (2015): 2992-2998. https://doi.org/10.3892/or.2015.3927
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Guo W, Zhang S and Liu S: Establishment of a novel orthotopic model of breast cancer metastasis to the lung. Oncol Rep 33: 2992-2998, 2015.
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Guo, W., Zhang, S., & Liu, S. (2015). Establishment of a novel orthotopic model of breast cancer metastasis to the lung. Oncology Reports, 33, 2992-2998. https://doi.org/10.3892/or.2015.3927
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Guo, W., Zhang, S., Liu, S."Establishment of a novel orthotopic model of breast cancer metastasis to the lung". Oncology Reports 33.6 (2015): 2992-2998.
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Guo, W., Zhang, S., Liu, S."Establishment of a novel orthotopic model of breast cancer metastasis to the lung". Oncology Reports 33, no. 6 (2015): 2992-2998. https://doi.org/10.3892/or.2015.3927
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