Breast Cancer Research

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Interleukin-1beta and fibroblast growth factor receptor 1 cooperate to induce cyclooxygenase-2 during early mammary tumourigenesis

Johanna R Reed1, Ronald P Leon2, Majken K Hall2 and Kathryn L Schwertfeger1,2*

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1 Microbiology, Immunology and Cancer Biology Graduate Program, University of Minnesota, 420 Delaware St. SE, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA

2 Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology and Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota, 420 Delaware St. SE, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA

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Breast Cancer Research 2009, 11:R21 doi:10.1186/bcr2246

Published: 24 April 2009

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A JPG file containing images of whole mount analysis of mammary glands following inducible fibroblast growth factor receptor 1 activation and IL-1β inhibition. Mammary glands from non-transgenic, non-treated mice (control) and transgenic mice treated with AP20187, IgG isotype control or IL-1β blocking antibody were analysed by whole mount analysis.

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