• Breast Disease Center of Southwest Hospital, The Third Military Medical University, Chongqing 400038, China;
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Objective  To review the recent studies on the suppressing function of breast cancer metastasis suppressor 1 (BRMS1) in breast cancer metastasis.
Methods  The recent literatures on the mechanisms of BRMS1 in the breast cancer that were published in and abroad were reviewed and summarized.
Results  BRMS1, similar to the other anti-metastasis genes, only suppresses the metastasis of breast cancer cells but has nothing to do with the growth of tumor. BRMS1 could suppress metastasis of tumor cells by reestablishing both the homospecific and the heterospecific gap junctional intercellular comminications (GJIC) and by altering the expressions of relevant metastasis genes in the breast cancer.
Conclusion  Further studies on BRMS1 may be helpful to understand the metastasis of breast cancer, which may provide a new way for the diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer.

Citation: XIE Jing,JIANG Jun. Suppressing Function of Breast Cancer Metastasis Suppressor 1 in Breast Cancer Metastasis. CHINESE JOURNAL OF BASES AND CLINICS IN GENERAL SURGERY, 2007, 14(3): 269-272. doi: Copy