Article: Deoxycholate promotes survival of breast cancer cells by reducing the level of pro-apoptotic ceramide.(Research article)(Report)

Authors: Kannan Krishnamurthy [1]; Guanghu Wang [1]; Dmitriy Rokhfeld [2]; Erhard Bieberich (corresponding author) [1]

Introduction

Breast cancer metastasis is a multi-step process that starts with evasion of cancer cells from the primary tumor, migration through the blood stream and lymphatic ducts, and homing into critical target tissues, creating a life-threatening disease [1]. In all of these steps, cancer cells are exposed to growth factors and chemokines in the serum, vastly enhancing their potential to proliferate and migrate. Most recently, our laboratory has shown that one of these factors is the bile acid sodium deoxycholate (DC) [1]. DC is ...

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