Abstract
Understanding the molecular pathways leading to breast cancer development and progression is difficult from retrospective analyses of human breast tumors. In particular, the influence of specific individual molecular factors on tumor development and progression, as well as on treatment outcome and prognosis, are difficult to assess. The topic of this review is the role of p53 in mammary carcinogenesis as deduced from model systems. Due to the heterogeneity of this disease, model systems are extremely useful to narrow down this complexity. We will first summarize the various types of model systems that have been established for the analysis of mammary carcinogenesis, in general, and then focus on mouse models which have analyzed the role of p53 in this process, and, at the end, describe practical applications of such mouse models for answering questions of clinical relevance.
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Deppert, W., Tolstonog, G. (2013). p53 Models for Mammary Carcinogenesis. In: Hainaut, P., Olivier, M., Wiman, K. (eds) p53 in the Clinics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3676-8_7
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