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PKC and Breast Cancer

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PKC expression is intimately associated with breast cancer initiation, progression, and therapy responsiveness, and these effects are highly isozyme-specific. PKC isozymes play key roles in proliferation and apoptosis of breast cancer cells and exert important modulatory roles in cell cycle progression. A close relationship exists between specific PKC isozymes and estrogen signaling.

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Merajver, S.D., Rosenthal, D.T., Van Wassenhove, L. (2010). PKC and Breast Cancer. In: Kazanietz, M. (eds) Protein Kinase C in Cancer Signaling and Therapy. Current Cancer Research. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-60761-543-9_17

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