Mammary epithelial-specific knockout of the ephrin-B2 gene leads to precocious epithelial cell death at lactation

Development Growth and Differentiation

Volumn 51, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 809-819

  Weiler, Stéphanie ^a   Rohrbach, Valeria ^a   Pulvirenti, Thekla ^a   Adams, Ralf ^b   Ziemiecki, Andrew ^a   Andres, Anne Catherine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Conditional knockout; EphB4; Epithelial cell integrity; Involution; Regeneration

Indexed keywords

EPHRIN B2; EPHRIN B4; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BREAST EPITHELIUM; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EPITHELIUM CELL; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LACTATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TISSUE REGENERATION;

ANIMALS; CELL DEATH; EPHRIN-B2; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; LACTATION; MAMMARY GLANDS, ANIMAL; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PREGNANCY; TIME FACTORS;

MUS; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 70849133454     PISSN: 00121592     EISSN: 1440169X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-169X.2009.01140.x     Document Type: Article

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