Progesterone and Wnt4 control mammary stem cells via myoepithelial crosstalk

EMBO Journal

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 641-652

  Rajaram, Renuga Devi ^a,d   Buric, Duje ^a   Caikovski, Marian ^a   Ayyanan, Ayyakkannu ^a   Rougemont, Jacques ^a   Shan, Jingdong ^b   Vainio, Seppo J ^b   Yalcin Ozuysal, Ozden ^c   Brisken, Cathrin ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^c IZMIR INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Turkey)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

canonical Wnt signaling; hormones; mammary stem cells; myoepithelium; paracrine

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; PROGESTERONE; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR; WNT4 PROTEIN; PRIMER DNA; WNT4 PROTEIN, MOUSE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST CELL; BREAST EPITHELIUM; CANCER RISK; CELL FUNCTION; CELL REGENERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOUSE; MYOEPITHELIUM; MYOEPITHELIUM CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF CONCEPT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELL; STROMA; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; EMBRYOLOGY; EPITHELIUM; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENE DELETION; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; IMAGE PROCESSING; METABOLISM; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; REGENERATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; UDDER;

ANIMALS; DNA PRIMERS; EPITHELIUM; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; HISTOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAMMARY GLANDS, ANIMAL; MICE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; PROGESTERONE; RECEPTOR CROSS-TALK; RECEPTORS, PROGESTERONE; REGENERATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; STEM CELLS; WNT4 PROTEIN;

EID: 84924023108     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: 14602075     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.15252/embj.201490434     Document Type: Article

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