Sentences with phrase «mammary gland development»

There was also no change in mammary gland development in the knockout mouse.

Given these data, we anticipated an impairment of mammary gland development in Melk KO mice.

A relevant study of rabbits examined the role of adolescent diet on mammary gland development during mid-pregnancy.

An obesogenic diet started before puberty leads to abnormal mammary gland development during pregnancy in the rabbit.

In previous studies, the research team, headed by Pier Paolo Di Fiore and Salvatore Pece, investigated the role of a protein called Numb in maintaining stem cells in normal mammary gland development in mice.

Occasionally spaying a cat in heat leads to dramatic mammary gland development in the recovery period because the sudden drop in progesterone levels that accompanies removing the active ovaries mimics the drop in progesterone that accompanies giving birth to kittens.

They plan to conduct more studies to learn the reason why and to try to find the mechanism by which BPA disrupts mammary gland development.

Humans have a very invasive placenta that would allow fetal hormones to pass into maternal circulation and possibly influence mammary gland development.

Mammary gland development as a sensitive end point after acute prenatal exposure to an atrazine metabolite mixture in female Long - Evans rats.

Therefore, we anticipated an impairment of mammary gland development in Melk KO mice.

As progesterone decreases it can stimulate mammary gland development and false labor in a non-pregnant dog.

Berlato and Doppler (2009) examined the action of insulin and insulin - like growth factors on mammary gland development and the ability of those cells to secrete milk in mice.

Although mice completely lacking SLC6A14 are viable and exhibit normal mammary gland development, these animals are highly resistant to mammary tumour initiation and progression driven by potent oncogenes.

Occasionally spaying a cat in heat leads to dramatic mammary gland development in the recovery period.

Environmental exposures and mammary gland development: State of the science, public health implications, and research recommendations.

More research is needed to explore the possible relationship between adolescent body mass index, or, perhaps, adolescent diet and mammary gland development.

Researchers fed an «obesogenic diet» (high fat, high sugar) to pre-pubertal rabbits, then compared their mammary gland development at mid-pregnancy to that of the rabbits fed the control diet.

Genetic data from ancient Scythian horses indicates that more than 2,000 years of domestication caused changes in horse genes related to mammary gland development and milk production.

Genes involved in mammary gland development and function had variants associated with greater milk production, perhaps indicating that the Scythians milked their horses.

In a study released today, environmental scientists led by Laura Vandenberg at the University of Massachusetts Amherst report that they observed changes in mammary gland development of female mice exposed during early development to the chemicals used in unconventional oil and gas (UOG) extraction — including fracking — at levels environmentally relevant to humans.

Breast Cancer & The Environment Research Centers: Sixth Annual Early Environmental Exposures Meeting The Breast Cancer and the Environment Research Centers (BCERC) network is conducting epidemiologic and biologic studies investigating the influence of early environmental exposures on pubertal maturation and mammary gland development and the potential of these developmental changes to alter the risk of breast cancer in later life.