Evidence for a novel pituitary factor that potentiates the mitogenic effect of estrogen in human breast cancer cells.

Mechanism of Action of the Female Sex Hormones

1972 • 763 citations

Prolactin and murine mammary tumorigenesis: a review.

1977 • 465 citations

PRODUCTION OF BOTH PROLACTIN AND GROWTH HORMONE BY CLONAL STRAINS OF RAT PITUITARY TUMOR CELLS

1970 • 342 citations

Somatomedin-C receptors and growth effects in human breast cells maintained in long-term tissue culture.

1984 • 256 citations

Presence of transforming growth factors in human breast cancer cells.

1984 • 222 citations

Role of Hormones in the Growth and Regression of Human Breast Cancer Cells (MCF-7) Transplanted Into Athymic Nude Mice<xref ref-type="fn" rid="FN2">2</xref>

1981 • 181 citations

Estrogen responsive proliferation of clonal human breast carcinoma cells in athymic mice

1980 • 178 citations

Estrogens Stimulate Cell Proliferation and Induce Secretory Proteins in a Human Breast Cancer Cell Line (T₄₇D)*

1982 • 175 citations

Hormones in breast cancer: Update 1978

1978 • 141 citations

Receptor binding and growth-promoting activity of insulin-like growth factors in human breast cancer cells (T-47D) in culture.

1984 • 139 citations

Prolactin and human breast cancer: a review

1979 • 73 citations

Mitogenic activity of pituitary hormones on cell cultures of normal and carcinogen-induced tumor epithelium from rat mammary glands

1977 • 73 citations

Evidence for a direct growth-stimulating effect of estradiol on human MCF-7 cells in vivo.

1984 • 69 citations

Required presence of both estrogen and pituitary factors for the growth of human breast cancer cells in athymic nude mice.

1981 • 68 citations

Hormone-induced ductal DNA synthesis of human breast tissues maintained in the athymic nude mouse.

1981 • 47 citations

Platelet derived growth factor(s) for a hormone‐responsive rat mammary tumor cell line

1978 • 39 citations

Partial purification and characterization of mammary stimulating factor, a protein which promotes proliferation of mammary epithelium

1979 • 32 citations

Estrogen induced growth of human breast cancer cells (MCF-7) in athymic nude mice is enhanced by secretions from a transplantable pituitary tumor

1981 • 28 citations

Growth stimulating activity in bovine pituitary extract specific for a rat mammary carcinoma cell line

1977 • 17 citations

Permissive role of the pituitary in the induction and growth of estrogen-dependent renal tumors.

1982 • 13 citations

Inhibition of ovariectomy-induced rat mammary tumor regression by a mammosomatotropic tumor.

1978 • 9 citations