BT-20

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BT-20 is a breast cancer cell line derived from a 74-year-old human female in 1958 by E.Y. Lasfargues and L. Ozzello.[1] The cells technically came from a triple-negative breast cancer, which was caused by an invasive ductal carcinoma in the mammary gland. BT-20 cells are known to have amplified regions of chromosomes 6, 11, and 20, with most cells being hyperdiploid.[2] The cells express an estrogen receptor with a deletion of exon 5, and are used in preclinical studies of breast cancer.

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  1. , Cultivation of human breast carcinomas, Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 1958, Vol. 21(Issue: 6), pp. 1131–1147, PMID: 13611537,
  2. BT20 Full text, , pawefish.uk, Accessed on: 10 April 2018.


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