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1990 • 1,495 citations

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1989 • 700 citations

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1991 • 659 citations

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1977 • 648 citations

Influence of a reconstituted basement membrane and its components on casein gene expression and secretion in mouse mammary epithelial cells.

1987 • 591 citations

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1992 • 530 citations

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1984 • 435 citations

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1985 • 416 citations

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1978 • 345 citations

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1980 • 316 citations

Human papilloma virus DNAs immortalize normal human mammary epithelial cells and reduce their growth factor requirements.

1990 • 300 citations

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1985 • 279 citations

Extracellular matrix promotes mammary epithelial growth and differentiation in vitro.

1982 • 262 citations

Keratin expression in human mammary epithelial cells cultured from normal and malignant tissue: relation to in vivo phenotypes and influence of medium

1989 • 251 citations

Reconstituted basement membrane (matrigel) and laminin can enhance the tumorigenicity and the drug resistance of small cell lung cancer cell lines.

1990 • 249 citations

A new diploid nontumorigenic human breast epithelial cell line isolated and propagated in chemically defined medium

1987 • 237 citations

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1991 • 216 citations

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1981 • 208 citations

Keratins as markers that distinguish normal and tumor-derived mammary epithelial cells.

1990 • 171 citations

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1986 • 160 citations

A cell line (HBL-100) established from human breast milk

1982 • 108 citations

Monoclonal antibody that defines human myoepithelium.

1985 • 105 citations

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1987 • 104 citations

Epithelial HBL-100 cell line derived from milk of an apparently healthy woman harbours SV40 genetic information

1985 • 96 citations

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1983 • 80 citations

Growth factor control of myoepithelial-cell differentiation in cultures of human mammary gland

1988 • 79 citations

A fibroblast-associated antigen: characterization in fibroblasts and immunoreactivity in smooth muscle differentiated stromal cells.

1992 • 78 citations

Suppression of tumor-forming ability and related traits in MCF-7 human breast cancer cells by fusion with immortal mammary epithelial cells.

1990 • 75 citations

Complexity of MAM-6, an epithelial sialomucin associated with carcinomas.

1989 • 70 citations

Stem cells and the development of mammary cancers in experimental rats and in humans

1987 • 70 citations

Preservation of defined phenotypic traits in short-term cultured human breast carcinoma derived epithelial cells.

1987 • 69 citations

Identification, paracrine generation, and possible function of human breast carcinoma myofibroblasts in culture

1992 • 61 citations

Mammary organoids from immature virgin rats undergo ductal and alveolar morphogenesis when grown within a reconstituted basement membrane*1

1991 • 54 citations

Down-regulation of a calmodulin-related gene during transformation of human mammary epithelial cells.

1990 • 53 citations

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1991 • 43 citations

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1986 • 41 citations

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1987 • 41 citations

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1991 • 38 citations

Regulation of mammary differentiation by the extracellular matrix.

1989 • 37 citations

Characterization of epithelial membrane antigen expression in human mammary epithelium by ultrastructural immunoperoxidase cytochemistry.

1986 • 35 citations

Human endometrial cells grown on an extracellular matrix form simple columnar epithelia and glands

1990 • 26 citations

Ultrastructural characterization of two new human endometrial carcinoma cell lines and normal human endometrial epithelial cells cultured on extracellular matrix

1990 • 26 citations

Reversion toward an earlier stage of differentiation and loss of polarity during progression of N-methyl-N-nitrosourea-induced rat mammary tumours.

1988 • 11 citations