The Role of Fatty Acid Synthase Over-expression in Human Breast Cancer

Fatty acid synthase (FAS) is over-expressed in many human cancers and its activity is required for cancer cell survival. To understand why FAS is over-expressed, we compared in breast cancer cells the utilization of fatty acids synthesized endogenously by FAS to those supplied exogenously in the cu...

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Main Author: Hopperton, Kathryn
Other Authors: Archer, Michael
Language:en_ca
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1807/33244