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| Author(s): |
Karina Panizzi Gimenes
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas (ICB/SDI) |
| Defense date: | 2008-09-04 |
| Examining board members: |
Maria Aparecida Nagai;
Mario Hiroyuki Hirata;
Ismael Dale Cotrim Guerreiro da Silva
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| Advisor: | Maria Aparecida Nagai |
| Abstract | |
The more frequent genic amplification observed in breast cancer is that of the ERBB2 oncogene, which occurs in approximately 30% of the breast cancers, and is associated with lower disease-free interval and survival of all patients with breast cancer. The ERBB-2 protein activates important cell signaling pathways such as MAPK and PI3K. Using real time PCR, it was investigated the effect of EGF and HRG on ANP32B, MATR3, ATAD4, NDRG1, ACTN1, SPARC, TPM1 and CENPH transcripts regulation in the HB4a, C5.2 and SKBr3 cell, that express different levels of ERBB2. It was also evaluated the expression profile of these transcripts in the C5.2 cell line after the suppression of ERBB2 expression by the siRNA technique. The treatments with EGF modulate differently the expression of the analysed transcripts in HB4a, C5.2 and SKBr3 cells. In HB4a and SKBr3 cells the treatments with HRG also modulate the expression of the transcripts above. The C5.2 cells transfected with siERBB2 showed alteration in the expression of ATAD4, NDRG1, ACTN1, SPARC, MATR3, CENPH and TPM1 transcripts. (AU) | |