Mammary gland development: Cell fate specification, stem cells and the microenvironment

Development (Cambridge)

Volumn 142, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1028-1042

  Inman, Jamie L ^a   Robertson, Claire ^a   Mott, Joni D ^a   Bissell, Mina J ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Mammary gland; Microenvironment; MMPs; Progenitor cells; Stem cells

Indexed keywords

CELL SURFACE MARKER; PROTEINASE; WNT PROTEIN;

ADIPOCYTE; BREAST CELL; BREAST DEVELOPMENT; CELL CONTACT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FATE; CELL LABELING; CELL LINEAGE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL REGENERATION; CELL RENEWAL; CELLS BY BODY ANATOMY; CLINICAL FEATURE; DNA ISOLATION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EPITHELIUM CELL; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FIBROBLAST; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; INVOLUTION; MAMMARY GLAND; MICROENVIRONMENT; MORPHOGENESIS; MYOEPITHELIUM CELL; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STEM CELL; STEM CELL EXPANSION; WNT SIGNALING PATHWAY; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MOUSE; PHYSIOLOGY; PUBERTY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELL NICHE;

ADIPOCYTES; ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FEMALE; FIBROBLASTS; HUMANS; MAMMARY GLANDS, HUMAN; MICE; PUBERTY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELL NICHE; STEM CELLS;

EID: 84929515988     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: 14779129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.087643     Document Type: Review

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