Side-branching in the mammary gland: The progesterone-Wnt connection

Genes and Development

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 889-894

  Robinson, Gertraud W ^a   Hennighausen, Lothar ^a   Johnson, Peter F ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; PROGESTERONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WNT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; BREAST CARCINOGENESIS; BREAST CARCINOMA; BREAST DEVELOPMENT; CELL GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECTODERM; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; KNOCKOUT GENE; MAMMARY GLAND; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBERTY; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; LACTATION; MAMMARY GLANDS, ANIMAL; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PREGNANCY; PROGESTERONE; PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PUBERTY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WNT PROTEINS; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0034656368     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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