“…Most interestingly, many anticancer agents, including those used for breast cancer therapy, convey their inhibitory e ect in G 1 phase primarily by reducing cyclin D1 levels. These include pure antiestrogens (Watts et al, 1994), tamoxifen (Planas Silva and Weinberg, 1997), retinoids (Teixeira and Pratt, 1997;Zhou et al, 1997), progestins (Musgrove et al, 1998), as well as 1.25-dihydroxyvitamin D 3 (Wang et al, 1996) and TGF-b (Mazars et al, 1995).…”