During puberty the breast begins to enlarge through the formation of adipose tissue and the branching and elongation of
the ductal system.
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.
Delous M., Yin Ch., Shin D., Ninov N., Debrito Carten J., Pan L., P. Ma T., Farber S., Moens C., Stainier D.Y.R sox9b is a key regulator of pancreaticobiliary
ductal system development.
connected to distinct underlying
ductal systems; not connected to the major ductal system of the normal gland
Problems with
the ductal system or issues with ejaculation can cause obstructive azoospermia.
Not exact matches
We also demonstrated that this observation was not caused incidentally by a particular vectoring
system: using intraductal injection of a lentiviral vector (Bu et al., 2009) to introduce caErbb2 to
ductal epithelia, we also observed accelerated tumorigenesis in the parous group relative to the virgin group (Figure 1 — figure supplement 2).