Glucocorticoids and progesterone prevent apoptosis in the lactating rat mammary gland

Endocrinology

Volumn 143, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 222-227

  Berg, Melissa N ^a   Dharmarajan, Arun M ^a   Waddell, Brendan J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; DNA FRAGMENT; GLUCOCORTICOID; PROGESTERONE;

ADRENALECTOMY; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HORMONE DETERMINATION; LACTATION; MAMMARY GLAND; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WEANING;

EID: 0036142540     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/endo.143.1.8584     Document Type: Article

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