Sentences with phrase «of myoepithelial cells»
Barbareschi M, Pecciarini L, Cangi MG, Macri E, Rizzo A, Viale G, Doglioni C. p63, a p53 homologue, is a selective nuclear marker of myoepithelial cells of the human breast.
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Receptors on the surface of the myoepithelial cells are designed to interact with a hormone, oxytocin, released during lactation.
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The tissue, called the stroma, includes fat cells, or adipocytes, that provide padding; fibroblasts, which make the framework for tissue; pericytes in blood vessels, which are contractile cells that help regulate blood pressure; as well as myoepithelial cells comprising the outer layer of the ductal system through which milk flows.
The basic components of the mammary gland are the alveoli (hollow cavities, a few millimetres large) lined with milk - secreting cuboidal cells and surrounded by myoepithelial cells.
This interaction causes the myoepithelial cells — on the outer layer of the ductal structure — to contract, squeezing the luminal cells within.
The myoepithelial cells can contract, similar to muscle cells, and thereby push the milk from the alveoli through the lactiferous ducts toward the nipple, where it collects in widenings (sinuses) of the ducts.
Rare spontaneous myoepitheliomas arising from myoepithelial cells of various exocrine glands have been observed in The Jackson Laboratory substrains.