IGR_BREX_JF

ABSTRACT: The tissue stroma plays a major role in tumors natural history. Important programs for tumor progression such as epithelial mesenchymal transition are not activated as cell-autonomous processes but under the conditions of cross-talk between tumor and stroma. Adipose tissue is a major component of the stroma and, because of their extended half-life, adipocytes are witnesses of tissue exposures. This study compares breast fat in women with breast tumors to those in healthy women to try to define a signature that could be translated into biomarkers for cancer and / or cancer risk. In the tumor-bearing breasts, we sampled adipose tissues adjacent to or distant from the tumor. Parameters studied include: adipocytes size and density; immune cells infiltration, vascularization, functional excret

ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens

SUBMITTER: Dessen Philippe 

PROVIDER: E-MTAB-8638 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress