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ArticleJournal of toxicologic pathology2019

Twist1 was detected in mesenchymal cells of mammary fibroadenoma and invasive components of breast carcinoma in rats.

Satomi Funahashi, Yasumasa Okazaki, Hirotaka Nagai, Shan Hwu Chew, Kumiko Ogawa, Takeshi Toyoda, Young-Man Cho, Shinya Toyokuni

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Article in Journal of toxicologic pathology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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8 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Satomi FunahashiDepartment of Pathology and Biological Responses, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, 65 Tsurumai-cho, Showa-ku, Nagoya, Aichi 466-8550, Japan.
Yasumasa OkazakiDepartment of Pathology and Biological Responses, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, 65 Tsurumai-cho, Showa-ku, Nagoya, Aichi 466-8550, Japan.
Hirotaka NagaiDepartment of Pathology and Biological Responses, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, 65 Tsurumai-cho, Showa-ku, Nagoya, Aichi 466-8550, Japan.
Shan Hwu ChewDepartment of Pathology and Biological Responses, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, 65 Tsurumai-cho, Showa-ku, Nagoya, Aichi 466-8550, Japan.
Kumiko OgawaDivision of Pathology, National Institute of Health Sciences, 3-25-26 Tonomachi, Kawasaki-ku, Kawasaki, Kanagawa 210-9501, Japan.
Takeshi ToyodaDivision of Pathology, National Institute of Health Sciences, 3-25-26 Tonomachi, Kawasaki-ku, Kawasaki, Kanagawa 210-9501, Japan.
Young-Man ChoDivision of Pathology, National Institute of Health Sciences, 3-25-26 Tonomachi, Kawasaki-ku, Kawasaki, Kanagawa 210-9501, Japan.
Shinya ToyokuniDepartment of Pathology and Biological Responses, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, 65 Tsurumai-cho, Showa-ku, Nagoya, Aichi 466-8550, Japan.
Nagoya University · JPNational Institute of Health Sciences · JP

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Fibroadenoma (FA) is a common mammary fibroepithelial tumor. The tumor size of the FA is increased by estrogen, progesterone, prolactin, and pregnancy, whereas it decreases after menopause. These observations in humans indicate that FA is hormone dependent. In rats, the most common mammary neoplasm is also FA. Expression levels of Twist1, a transcriptional regulator of epithelial-mesenchymal transition, were examined in paraffin-embedded tissue sections of an experimental rat breast model to find physiological alternations coincident with reproductive hormonal changes. Twenty-three Fischer 344/Brown Norway F1 hybrid rats were used as 14- to 16-week-old adolescent rats (n=3), pregnant rats (n=4), and lactating rats (n=6) in addition to rats over 100-weeks-old that exhibited aging (n=3) and FA (n=7). Seventy-six cases of chemically induced breast carcinoma and two cases of FA in Sprague Dawley rats were also examined. Using tissue sections, we observed that Twist1-positive mesenchymal cells were predominantly located in the periductal region in adolescent and pregnant rats and in the terminal duct lobular unit in pregnant and elderly rats. Twist1 was also expressed diffusely in the mesenchymal cells of FA rats. Twist1-positive cancer-associated mesenchymal cells were found more frequently in the invasive components of breast carcinomas than in intraductal components. The expressions of Twist1 in mesenchymal cells were induced by physiological and pathological stimuli, suggesting the biological role of Twist1 in tissue structure. Further study may reveal the role of Twist1 in mesenchymal cells of mammary glands in rats.

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chemically induced breast carcinomafibroadenomamesenchymal cellrat modelTwist1

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