Table 1

Tumors, primary cultures and cell lines used in the experiments in this paper

Source

Description

References

Tumors and primary cultures

HDTs

MMTV(LA)-induced HDTs growing in vivo

[24,25,31]

HITs

MMTV(LA)-induced HITs growing in vivo

[24,25,31]

TPC

Primary cultures derived from HITs

LM3 tumors

Poorly differentiated adenocarcinomas derived from LM3 cells implanted subcutaneously in BALB/c mice

Cell lines

LM3

Cell line established from a spontaneous mammary tumor in BALB/c mouse

[47]

LMM3

Cell line derived from a highly metastatic mammary tumor in BALB/c mouse

[47]

HC11

Normal mouse mammary epithelial cell line

[50,51]

SCP2

Normal mouse mammary epithelial cell line

[52]

NMuMG

Normal mouse mammary epithelial cell line

ATTC – CRL-1636™

MCF-7

Human ER⁺ breast cancer cell line

ATTC – HTB-22™

HDT, hormone-dependent tumor; HIT, hormone-independent tumor; TPC, tumor primary culture; MMTV, mouse mammary tumor virus; ER, estrogen receptor, ATCC^®, American Type Culture Collection Number.

Quaglino et al. Breast Cancer Research 2007 9:R69   doi:10.1186/bcr1777