Expression and immunolocalization of the oxytocin receptor in human lactating and non-lactating mammary glands

Human Reproduction

Volumn 13, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 2645-2653

  Kimura, Tadashi ^a,b   Ito, Yasuhiro ^a   Einspanier, Almuth ^c   Tohya, Kazuo ^d   Nobunaga, Toshikatsu ^a   Tokugawa, Yoshihiro ^a   Takemura, Masahiko ^a   Kubota, Yasue ^a   Ivell, Richard ^b   Matsuura, Nariaki ^e   Saji, Fumitaka ^a   Murata, Yuji ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^c GERMAN PRIMATE CENTER   (Germany)

^d Kansai College of Oriental Medicine   (Japan)

^e OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ductal glandular epithelium; Lactation; Mammary gland; Myoepithelium; Oxytocin receptor

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; MILK PROTEIN; OXYTOCIN RECEPTOR; RECEPTOR ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BREAST DUCT; BREAST EPITHELIUM; BREAST MILK; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LACTATION; MAMMARY GLAND; MARMOSET; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION;

EID: 0031708345     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/13.9.2645     Document Type: Article

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