Forced involution of the functionally differentiated mammary gland by overexpression of the pro-apoptotic protein bax

Genesis

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 24-35

  Rucker, Edmund B ^a   Hale, Amber N ^a   Durtschi, David C ^b   Sakamoto, Kazuhito ^c   Wagner, Kay Uwe ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Bax; Epithelium; Involution; Lactation; Mammary gland

Indexed keywords

ACID PROTEIN; AKT 1 PROTEIN; PROTEIN BAX; PROTEIN KINASE B; STAT3 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WHEY ACIDIC PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPITHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; FORCED INVOLUTION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; IN VIVO STUDY; INVOLUTION; LACTATION; LACTATION DISORDER; MAMMARY GLAND; MITOCHONDRION; MOUSE; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; PROMOTER REGION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BCL-2-ASSOCIATED X PROTEIN; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FEMALE; GENETIC VECTORS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LACTATION; MAMMARY GLANDS, ANIMAL; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MILK PROTEINS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-AKT; STAT5 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UP-REGULATION;

MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 78751625478     PISSN: 1526954X     EISSN: 1526968X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dvg.20691     Document Type: Article

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