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CANCER RESEARCH
Volume 64, Issue 3, Pages 857-863Publisher
AMER ASSOC CANCER RESEARCH
DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-03-2701
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- NCRR NIH HHS [RR00115] Funding Source: Medline
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Studies of cellular interactions are critical to the understanding of tumorigenesis. Although many studies have demonstrated a monoclonal composition of advanced neoplasms in humans and mice, the clonal composition of smaller, antecedent lesions has been studied less thoroughly. To examine the clonal development of breast cancer, we generated chimeric mammary glands using mouse mammary epithelium with an inherited predisposition for neoplasia. Analysis of whey acidic protein-transforming growth factor-a transgenic mouse mammary glands, chimeric for two different cell lineage markers, revealed that mammary ducts and alveoli are polyclonal, and putative early preneoplastic lesions, hyperplastic alveolar nodules (HANs), frequently are polyclonal. Furthermore, the chimeric patch patterns in individual HANs were similar to the patterns observed in pregnant chimeric mammary glands. Thus, polyclonality in HANs appears to reflect persistence of the polyclonal architecture of ducts and/or alveoli, suggesting that hyperplasia formation can be the result of non-cell autonomous local tissue microenvironmental influences on groups of cells, rather than clonal progression of a single initiated cell.
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