Sentences with phrase «activated by pregnancy»

To the extent that oedipal feelings still remain unresolved in either or both partners, these may be activated by pregnancy.

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It could be assumed, she says, that this circuitry is activated only by the rush of hormones during conception, pregnancy, and childbirth.

However, when challenged by an oncogene, the normal mammary epithelial cells in these involuted glands did not aberrantly activate STAT5 (Figure 8A) when compared to mammary cells that gained caErbB2 first and were later exposed to pregnancy hormones (Figure 3A).

These data suggest that premalignant mammary cells respond to pregnancy and lactation hormones by activating STAT5, as their normal counterparts do (Figure 3A inset); however — unlike their normal counterparts — they continue to maintain high levels of pSTAT5 even during involution (Figure 3 — figure supplement 1B).