Journal: Journal of Mammary Gland Biology and Neoplasia
Article Title: Natural and induced epithelial-mesenchymal transition results in epigenetic silencing of HER2 overexpression
doi: 10.1007/s10911-025-09588-2
Figure Lengend Snippet: Image analysis and EMT comparisons in IDC v MC. A TMAs were subjected to ERAs and SRAs designed to identify monophasic non-embolic and embolic regions of infiltrating IDC and biphasic epithelial and mesenchymal regions of MC. 100 regions of interest from each of these areas were selected and studied for CDH1 and VIM immunoreactivities. SRAs showed the relative signal intensities of each of these proteins in the indicated areas of IDC and MC. For each of these parameters, the graph depicts calculated means ± SD. Differences of significance are depicted. B In emboli v non-emboli of IDC, relative mRNA levels compared to reference levels in human dermal fibroblasts (HDF) showed high steady state CDH1 and low EMT-related genes (TWIST1, VIM and FN1) equally in both emboli and non-emboli. In biphasic MC, the mesenchymal phase (MC-mesen) compared with the epithelial phase (MC-epith) showed significant EMT. In cases of HER2 overexpressing IDC and MC, overexpression of HER2 persisted in the emboli of IDC but was dramatically decreased in the mesenchymal regions of MC which had undergone EMT. Results depicted are mean + standard deviation of 5 separate experiments. Each experiment also had five separate replicates
Article Snippet: Other breast cancer cell lines included the CDH1 positive, HER2 negative (MCF7) and the CDH1 positive, HER2 amplified (HTB20 [BT-474]) (ATCC, Manassas, VA).
Techniques: Over Expression, Standard Deviation