Anju Gangadharan, Themba Nyirenda, Kishan Patel, Nydia Jaimes-Delgadillo, Dominique Coletta, Takemi Tanaka, Ayal C Walland, Zena Jameel, Srinivasa Vedantam, Sittinon Tang, Ciaran Mannion, Grace Y Lee, Andre Goy, Andrew Pecora, K Stephen Suh
OBJECTIVES: Breast cancer (BC) is the second leading cause of cancer-related mortality in women. Bioinformatic analysis and expression screening showed that Prolactin Induced Protein (PIP) was differentially expressed in BC. The objective of this investigation was to characterize the expression pattern of PIP, an aspartyl proteinase, in malignant and non-malignant breast tissues. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Real time quantitative PCR was employed to analyze PIP and androgen receptor (AR) mRNA levels in BC cell lines and 190 normal tissues and tumor samples...
April 12, 2018: Breast: Official Journal of the European Society of Mastology