Hormonal and local control of mammary branching morphogenesis

Differentiation

Volumn 74, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 365-381

  Sternlicht, Mark D ^a   Kouros Mehr, Hosein ^a   Lu, Pengfei ^a   Werb, Zena ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Branching morphogenesis; Epithelial stromal crosstalk; Mammary gland

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN;

BIRTH; BRANCHING MORPHOGENESIS; BREAST DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; HORMONAL REGULATION; LACTATION; MAMMARY GLAND; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBERTY; REVIEW;

EID: 33747040785     PISSN: 03014681     EISSN: 14320436     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-0436.2006.00105.x     Document Type: Article

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