Salk Scientists Find Molecular Mechanism that Underlies Metastatic Breast Cancer (IMAGE)

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Salk Scientists Find Molecular Mechanism that Underlies Metastatic Breast Cancer

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New Salk research shows that high levels of the critical gene Sox10 is tied to aggressive breast cancer. In parts of the adult mammary gland, Sox10 is expressed in cells with higher levels of stem cell activity and not in mature cells that lack detectable stem cell activity. Progesterone receptor (red) indicates non-stem-like mammary cells, which show an inverse correlation with cells expressing Sox10 (blue). A protein called cytokeratin-8 (green) shows the development of the gland.

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