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“Iron-saturated” bovine lactoferrin improves the chemotherapeutic effects of tamoxifen in the treatment of basal-like breast cancer in mice

BACKGROUND: Tamoxifen is used in hormone therapy for estrogen-receptor (ER)-positive breast cancer, but also has chemopreventative effects against ER-negative breast cancers. This study sought to investigate whether oral iron-saturated bovine lactoferrin (Fe-Lf), a natural product which enhances che...

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Autores principales: Sun, Xueying, Jiang, Ruohan, Przepiorski, Aneta, Reddy, Shiva, Palmano, Kate P, Krissansen, Geoffrey W
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3539967/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23231648
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2407-12-591