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Weston Porter

Researcher at Texas A&M University

Publications -  67
Citations -  3993

Weston Porter is an academic researcher from Texas A&M University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Estrogen receptor & Cancer. The author has an hindex of 32, co-authored 59 publications receiving 3775 citations. Previous affiliations of Weston Porter include University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center & University of Western Ontario.

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Functional Synergy between the Transcription Factor Sp1 and the Estrogen Receptor

TL;DR: The results illustrate a new estrogen-dependent transactivation pathway that involves ER-protein interactions and is ERE-independent, whereas transactivation of promoter-reporter constructs is estrogen- dependent.
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Ah receptor agonists as endocrine disruptors: Antiestrogenic activity and mechanisms

TL;DR: Results indicate that the nuclear AhR complex targets specific genomic core inhibitory dioxin responsive elements (iDREs) in promoter regions of some E2-responsive target genes to inhibit hormone-induced transactivation.
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Molecular mechanism of inhibition of estrogen-induced cathepsin D gene expression by 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD) in MCF-7 cells.

TL;DR: Electrophoretic mobility shift assays demonstrate that Ah receptor-mediated inhibition of E2-induced cathepsin D gene expression is due to disruption of the ER-Sp1 complex by targeted interaction with an overlapping XRE.
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Remodeling of the mammary microenvironment after lactation promotes breast tumor cell metastasis.

TL;DR: It is suggested that the mammary gland microenvironment becomes promotional for tumor cell dissemination during involution, thus providing a plausible mechanism to explain the high rate of metastases that occur with pregnancy-associated breast cancer.