Sentences with phrase «mammary gland ducts»

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Watching these videos will help you to understand how breastmilk is supplied from the mammary glands to the mammary ducts and subsequently to the nipples for the child to suck.

Mammary glands are made of channels where milk travels called milk ducts and alveoli, a group of tissues that secrete milk.

Breast compression allows the fat globules in your mammary glands move down to the ducts quickly, as a result, this allows the hindmilk which is fattier to arrive sooner.

At birth, the mammary gland contains only rudimentary ducts that have small club - like ends, which grow throughout childhood.

The glands that produce milk (mammary glands) that are connected to the surface of the breast by the lactiferous ducts may extend to the armpit area.

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 researchers also found that in response to pregnancy hormones, the mammary glands of mice that had been pregnant before also grew more treelike branches of milk - moving ducts than mice who had not been pregnant before.

These cells form many of the organs in the body, and arrange themselves into either sheets (such as the skin) or branching ducts (such as kidney, or mammary glands).

It's important to wear the right size bra, as an incorrect fit can put too much pressure on the girls and can cause mastitis (inflammation of the mammary glands) and plugged milk ducts.

Each chain of mammary glands is connected by lymph ducts and blood vessels.

The mammary gland itself is a system of ducts that conduct milk to the nipple, surrounded by fat cells and connective tissue.

This infection occurs as bacteria, such as Escherichia coli, enter the small ducts of the bitch's mammary gland where it starts growing and damaging the breast tissue.