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Table 3 Summary of the immunohistochemistry analyses of the xenografts obtained with cancer patients’ serum-treated BRCA1-KO fibroblasts

From: Transfer of malignant trait to BRCA1 deficient human fibroblasts following exposure to serum of cancer patients

Cases

Xenograft Phenotype

Differentiation Markers

Case A

Poorly differentiated carcinoma

Synaptophysin

Neurofilament

negative

negative

Case B

Poorly differentiated carcinoma

Estrogen receptor

Mammoglobin

CK7

negative

rare positivity

rare positivity

Case C

Poorly differentiated carcinoma

Chromogranin

Synaptophysin

negative

rare positivity

rare positivity

Case D

Poorly differentiated carcinoma

Estrogen receptor

Mammoglobin

CK7

negative

negative

rare positivity

Case F

Poorly differentiated carcinoma

CK5/6

CK34BE12

AE1/AE3

negative

negative

Strongly + ve

Case E

Differentiation toward intestinal adenocarcinoma

CEA

CK7

CK20

CDX-2

AE1/AE3

Vimentin

positive

negative

positive

positive

positive

negative

Case G

Differentiation toward intestinal adenocarcinoma

CEA

CK7

CK20

CDX-2

AE1/AE3

Vimentin

positive

negative

positive

positive

positive

negative

Case H

Differentiation toward intestinal adenocarcinoma

CEA

CK7

CK20

CDX-2

AE1/AE3

Vimentin

positive

negative

positive

positive

positive

negative

Case I

Differentiation toward intestinal adenocarcinoma

CEA

CK7

CK20

CDX-2

AE1/AE3

Vimentin

positive

negative

positive

positive

positive

negative

Case J

Differentiation toward typical pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma

CK7

CK19

AE1/AE3

Vimentin

positive

positive

positive

negative