Main description:

This book will provide the latest advances in molecular and cellular biology for establishing the foundation of a complete understanding of the mechanisms of breast differentiation leading to cancer prevention. The authors are based on the epidemiological evidence indicating that early first full term pregnancy is a protective factor in human against breast cancer and they have used this paradigm and developed experimental systems in both in vivo and in vitro that have demonstrated mechanistically how the differentiation at the organ and cellular level takes place. This knowledge has provided the blueprint for developing better understanding of the basis of cancer prevention. The transcriptoma analysis of the breast of pre and post-menopausal women has established a genomic signature imprinted in the breast that differs according to the reproductive history of the woman showing that early first full term pregnancy reprogram the organ. This reprogramming takes place at the chromatin level by changing the transcriptional process. The modification of the transcriptional control is due to the expression of non coding RNA sequences and posttranscriptional control driven by the splicesome. The plasticity of the genome of the human breast make possible this reprogramming that is not only induced by the physiological process of pregnancy but by the use of hormones that mimic pregnancy without pregnancy. The author have established the basis of clinical trials for prevention and the discovery that short 15aa peptides of the chorionic gonadotropin hormone can be used in human breast cancer prevention based on preclinical and clinical data.

Contents:

Preface.- The epidemiology of breast cancer and the basis for prevention.- In vivo model for breast cancer prevention.- Comparative effects of the preventive effect of pregnancy, steroidal hormones and hCG in the transcriptomic profile of the rat mammary gland.- The use of in vitro three-dimensional system for testing preventing agents.- Methodological approach fro studying the human breast.- The transcriptoma of breast cancer prevention.- Chromatin remodeling and pregnancy induced differentiation.- The role of spliceosome in the human breast.- Non coding RNAs and breast cancer prevention.- The role of stem cell in breast cancer prevention.- Index.