Information networks in the mammary gland

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 715-725

  Hennighausen, Lothar ^a   Robinson, Gertraud W ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; ESTROGEN; MILK PROTEIN; PEPTIDE HORMONE; PLACENTA LACTOGEN; PROGESTERONE; PROLACTIN; STAT5 PROTEIN; STEROID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

CELL COMPOSITION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; DEATH; DEVELOPMENT; DNA MICROARRAY; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; LACTATION; LIFE; MAMMARY GLAND; MEDICAL INFORMATION; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBERTY; REVIEW; SURVIVAL; ANIMAL; CELL LINEAGE; CYTOLOGY; EPITHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; TRANSPLANTATION; UDDER;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; CELL LINEAGE; CYTOKINES; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; MAMMARY GLANDS, ANIMAL; MAMMARY GLANDS, HUMAN; PREGNANCY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 27744522671     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: 14710080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrm1714     Document Type: Review

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