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Genes & cancer (2017-01-05)
Luke Esau, Sunil Sagar, Dhinoth Bangarusamy, Mandeep Kaur
ABSTRACT

Cholesterol and its metabolites act as steroid hormone precursors, which promote estrogen receptor positive (ER+) breast cancer (BC) progression. Development of cholesterol targeting anticancer drugs has been hindered due to the lack of knowledge of viable molecular targets. Till now, Cholesteryl ester transfer protein (CETP) has been envisaged as a feasible molecular target in atherosclerosis, but for the first time, we show that