Effects of the sucking stimulus on relaxin receptor (LGR7) expression in the mammary apparatus of the tammar wallaby (Macropus eugenii)

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1041, Issue , 2005, Pages 118-122

  Gwyther, Janey ^a   Gehring, Helen M ^a   Parry, Laura J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Lactation; LGR7; Marsupial

Indexed keywords

HORMONE RECEPTOR; LGR7 PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; RELAXIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; BREAST DEVELOPMENT; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; LACTATION; MAMMARY GLAND; MARSUPIAL; NEWBORN; NIPPLE; NONHUMAN; PUERPERIUM; SUCKING; TAMMAR WALLABY;

MACROPODIDAE; MACROPUS EUGENII; METATHERIA;

EID: 23644436173     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1282.016     Document Type: Conference Paper

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