Estrogen receptor variants in normal human mammary tissue

Journal of the National Cancer Institute
E LeygueL J Murphy

Abstract

Several estrogen receptor (ER) variant messenger RNAs (mRNAs) have been identified previously in human breast cancer biopsy samples and cell lines. The relative levels of certain ER variant mRNAs have been observed to increase with breast tumor progression. In vitro assays of the function of polypeptides encoded by some of these variant mRNAs have led to speculation that ER variants may be involved in the progression from hormone dependence to independence in breast cancer. We set out to establish if ER variant mRNAs are present in normal human breast tissues and, if so, to compare levels of these variants between normal and neoplastic human breast tissues. Four human breast tissue samples from reduction mammoplasties and five samples from tissue adjacent to breast tumors were analyzed. The tissue samples were confirmed to be normal (i.e., not malignant) by histopathologic analysis. RNA was extracted immediately from adjacent frozen sections. Human breast tumor specimens originally resected from 19 patients were acquired from a tumor bank and processed in the same way as the normal tissue samples. The RNAs were then reverse transcribed and subsequently amplified with the use of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR). PCR primer se...Continue Reading

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