MCF-7

MCF -7 (Abbreviation for: Michigan Cancer Foundation - 7) is a breast cancer cell line from a white ( Caucasian ) 69 - year-old woman. The culture was created in 1970 from an amputated breast tissue. Before MCF- 7 fell through all previous attempts to cultivate breast cell lines, to 1973 Herbert Soule and his team established this line and presented.

The cell culture is very well suited for breast cancer research and analysis, as have obtained some properties of the breast epithelium. Thus, for example, these cells estrogen -sensitive. You possess estrogen receptors in the cytoplasm and respond to estrogen treatment with cell proliferation.

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