[Immunohistochemical study of oncogene c-erbb-2 expression and extracellular matrix proteins in breast cancer (various mechanisms of invasion)].

55 breast carcinomas and 9 its benign conditions were studied immunohistochemically. Oncoprotein c-erbB-2 was found in 22% carcinomas and in 33-37% comedo-carcinomas. Coincidence of predominant expression of oncoprotein c-erbB-2 and tenascin was observed.

Aromatase in breast cancer tissue--localization and relationship with reproductive status of patients.

The precise place of local estrogen production in mammary cancer is still controversial. In this investigation localization of aromatase (the key enzyme of estrogen biosynthesis) was studied in breast cancer tissue by immunohistochemical method using polyclonal rabbit antibodies. The cytoplasmic staining was found in different cell types, but the most intensive specific staining was found in malignant cells and it was stronger (P < 0.

[Malignant hemangioendothelioma: its microscopic structure, tissue markers and place among the soft-tissue sarcomas].

108 tumors reckoned in the file of the N. N. Petrov Research Institute of Oncology as vascular neoplasms were studied microscopically and histochemically.

[Morphogenesis and histogenesis of experimental malignant hemangioendothelioma].

Film preparations, various histological stains, autohistoradiography and electron microscopy were used to study morphologic changes occurring in the course of formation of vascular kidney tumors in male CBA mice after subcutaneous injection of 1.2-dimethylhydrazine. Twenty-thirty animals were examined every 4 weeks up to 45-50 weeks.

[Morphology of experimental malignant hemangioendothelioma].

Various histological stains, histoautoradiography and electron microscopy were used to study the morphologic features of 77 malignant hemangioendotheliomas induced in CBA mice with subcutaneously injected 1,2-dimethylhydrazine. The histologic and cytologic structure of those tumors proved similar to those of malignant hemangioendothelioma in man. The ability of tumor cells to form vascular structures and degree of their neoplastic atypia were used to identify three types of neoplasia: "cavernous hemangioma" with cytologic signs of malignity and well- and poorly--differentiated malignant hemangioendotheliomas.