Sentences with phrase «breast gland cells»

Being obese or having a higher body mass index (BMI) while carrying a BRCA (BReast CAncer gene) mutation is positively linked with higher levels of damage to the DNA in normal breast gland cells, new research suggests.

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The stimulus of nursing or suckling supports continued lactation in two ways: it promotes the secretion of prolactin (and possibly other pituitary hormones of value in milk formation), and it triggers the release of yet another hormone from the pituitary gland — oxytocin, which causes contraction of special muscle cells around the alveoli in the breast and ensures the expulsion of milk.

One way, the drugs or medications can get into breast milk is to pass through the cell pores in the mammary gland.

«Perhaps there are some mammary gland stem cells that can be coaxed to have a slightly broader potential than normal, but I very much doubt that embryonic - like cells normally exist in the breast,» says Robin Lovell - Badge of the National Institute for Medical Research in London.

After isolating a mammary stem cell from mouse breast tissue, molecular biologist Jane Visvader and oncologist Geoffrey Lindeman of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in Melbourne, Australia, managed to grow a functional breast, complete with milk - producing glands and ducts.

The authors believe theirs is the first study to show that mouse mammary gland tissues are sensitive to a mixture of 23 commonly used UOG chemicals, with dose - specific effects on tissue morphology, cell proliferation and induction of intraductal hyperplasias, an overgrowth of cells considered a marker for future breast cancer risk.

Different tumor subtypes can include glandular, which include the mammary glands, as well as squamous, which are very rare and involve epithelial cells that line the inside of the breast.

Using cultured cells derived from human tumors of the breast and prostate gland, they confirmed that the IL6R / STAT3 / miR -34 a feedback loop is also activated in other tumor types.

In Nrk mutant mammary glands, dense clusters of ER alpha - positive mammary epithelial cells were sometimes observed at late stages of pregnancy, which may represent the «bud» of the breast tumor.

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Malignant lymphomas (lymph node tumours), skin cancer (mast cell tumours), bone cancer, and breast cancer (mammary gland tumours) are very common in elderly furkids.

Breast Cancer occurs due to abnormal cell reproduction or growth in the mammary glands of female dogs.