Many articles have reported the caveolin-1 gene to be downregulated thus suggesting that it might be a candidate tumor suppressor gene in many tumors, but in bladder tumors the caveolin-1 gene was expressed and related to the pathological grade. We investigated the function of caveolin-1 protein in breast tumors.
Department of Surgical Oncology and Thoracic Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine and Dentistry, Okayama University, 2-5-1 Shikata-cho, Okayama 700-8558, Japan.