Hedgehog signaling in mammary gland development and breast cancer.

abstract：:The neuroendocrine hormone prolactin (PRL) stimulates breast growth and differentiation during puberty, pregnancy, and lactation. Despite extensive and convincing data indicating that PRL significantly contributes to the pathogenesis and progression of rodent mammary carcinoma, parallel observations for human breast c...

journal_title：Journal of mammary gland biology and neoplasia

authors： Clevenger CV,Plank TL

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Male breast cancer is a rare disease and clinical or epidemiological data are available from only a relatively few cases. Nonetheless, both similarities and discrepancies are apparent between breast cancer in men and women. For example, lobular and mucinous carcinomas are seldom seen in men. Tumors in men more often d...

journal_title：Journal of mammary gland biology and neoplasia

authors： Olsson H

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The microenvironment of a tumor has emerged recently as a critical contributor to the development of cancer. Within this environment, fibroblasts and immune cells are the cell lineages that seem to be active mediators of tumour development. The activated fibroblasts that are also present during wound healing and chron...

journal_title：Journal of mammary gland biology and neoplasia

authors： Unsworth A,Anderson R,Britt K

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since breast cancer and its associated metastasis are a global health problem and a major cause of mortality among women, research efforts to understand the development, morphogenesis, and functioning of the mammary gland are a high priority. Myriad signaling pathways, transcription factors, and associated transcripti...

journal_title：Journal of mammary gland biology and neoplasia

authors： Singh RR,Kumar R

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Insulin-like growth factor-I and -II (IGF-I and IGF-II) and/or the type I insulin-like growth factor receptor (IGF-IR) have been implicated in a number of human tumors including breast cancer. However, despite being implicated in breast cancer for approximately 25 years and given that transgenic technology has been av...

journal_title：Journal of mammary gland biology and neoplasia

authors： Jones RA,Moorehead RA

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mouse has emerged as a primary animal model for human breast cancer because the mammary glands of the two species are very similar in structure and function. In this regard the TDLU and LA have similar morphology. The mouse, infected by MMTV, develops "spontaneous" tumors with specific but limited tumor phenotypes...

journal_title：Journal of mammary gland biology and neoplasia

authors： Cardiff RD,Wellings SR

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We review the role of Neuregulin 3 (Nrg3) and Erbb receptor signalling in embryonic mammary gland development. Neuregulins are growth factors that bind and activate its cognate Erbb receptor tyrosine kinases, which form a signalling network with established roles in breast development and breast cancer. Studies have s...

journal_title：Journal of mammary gland biology and neoplasia

authors： Kogata N,Zvelebil M,Howard BA

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wild-type p53 is a tumor suppressor gene that plays a central role in maintaining the genetic integrity of the cell by preventing cells with damaged DNA from further proliferation. Mutation and deletion of p53 are the most common genetic defects seen in clinical cancer. About 40% of breast carcinomas show high levels ...

journal_title：Journal of mammary gland biology and neoplasia

authors： Barnes DM,Camplejohn RS

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Breast cancer is one of the most common cancers of women in the Western world. Despite modest achievements in the treatment of this disease, there is a substantial unmet medical need to reduce the occurrence of new breast cancers. In several prospective, placebo-controlled trials, the antiestrogen tamoxifen has been s...

journal_title：Journal of mammary gland biology and neoplasia

authors： Strassmer-Weippl K,Goss PE

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between maternal dietary intakes of energy or fat maternal body composition and the milk fat concentration is an important element in understanding the role of breast-milk in infant nutrition. In most studies in both developing and developed countries, no relation between maternal energy intake and mi...

journal_title：Journal of mammary gland biology and neoplasia

authors： Villalpando S,del Prado M

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mammary gland involution, characterized by extensive apoptosis and structural remodelling of the gland, is the process by which the gland is returned to the pre-pregnant state. A key advantage of the mammary gland is the ability to synchronize involution through forced weaning, thus allowing the dissection of biochemi...

journal_title：Journal of mammary gland biology and neoplasia

authors： Sutherland KD,Lindeman GJ,Visvader JE

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Estrogens are important for the development of the mammary gland and strongly associated with oncogenesis in this tissue. The biological effects of estrogens are mediated through the estrogen receptor (ER), a member of the nuclear receptor superfamily. The estrogen/ER signaling pathway plays a central role in mammary ...

journal_title：Journal of mammary gland biology and neoplasia

authors： Bocchinfuso WP,Korach KS

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With our improved understanding of the biological behavior of breast cancer, minimally invasive intervention is urgently needed for personalized treatment of early disease. Intraductal therapy is one such minimally invasive approach. With the help of appropriate tools, technologies using the intraductal means of enter...

journal_title：Journal of mammary gland biology and neoplasia

authors： Kuang XW,Liu JH,Sun ZH,Sukumar S,Sun SR,Chen C

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Calcium is an important nutrient that is secreted into milk in quantities that put a considerable stress upon maternal calcium homeostasis. Here we summarize the evidence that two important entities, the extracellular calcium-sensing receptor (CaR) and parathyroid hormone-related protein (PTHrP) are involved in a feed...

journal_title：Journal of mammary gland biology and neoplasia

authors： VanHouten JN

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Available evidence indicates that mammary gland secretions first evolved in synapsids that laid parchment-shelled eggs. Unlike the rigid-shelled eggs of birds and some other sauropsids, parchment-shelled eggs lose water very rapidly when exposed to ambient air of lower vapor pressure, whether due to differences in rel...

journal_title：Journal of mammary gland biology and neoplasia

authors： Oftedal OT

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inflammation of the adipose tissues occurs in association with obesity. This inflammatory process leads to the induction of cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) expression and a consequent elevation in prostaglandin (PG) production, which, together with proinflammatory cytokines, induce aromatase expression and estrogen synthesis...

journal_title：Journal of mammary gland biology and neoplasia

authors： Vona-Davis L,Rose DP

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Women are using estrogens for many purposes, such as to prevent pregnancy or miscarriage, or to treat menopausal symptoms. Estrogens also have been used to treat breast cancer which seems puzzling, since there is convincing evidence to support a link between high lifetime estrogen exposure and increased breast cancer ...

journal_title：Journal of mammary gland biology and neoplasia

authors： Hilakivi-Clarke L,de Assis S,Warri A

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor spread involves degradation of various components of the extracellular matrix and blood vessel wall. Among these is heparan sulfate proteoglycan, which plays a key role in the self-assembly, insolubility and barrier properties of basement membranes and extracellular matrices. Expression of an endoglycosidase (he...

journal_title：Journal of mammary gland biology and neoplasia

authors： Zcharia E,Metzger S,Chajek-Shaul T,Friedmann Y,Pappo O,Aviv A,Elkin M,Pecker I,Peretz T,Vlodavsky I

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mammalian cells depend on phospholipid (PL) and fatty acid (FA) transport to maintain membrane structure and organization, and to fuel and regulate cellular functions. In mammary glands of lactating animals, copious milk secretion, including large quantities of lipid in some species, requires adaptation and integratio...

journal_title：Journal of mammary gland biology and neoplasia

authors： McManaman JL

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With the discovery of an activated Notch oncogene as a causative agent in mouse mammary tumor virus induced breast cancer in mice, the potential role for Notch signaling in normal and pathological mammary development was revealed. Subsequently, Notch receptors have been found to regulate normal development in many org...

journal_title：Journal of mammary gland biology and neoplasia

authors： Callahan R,Egan SE

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As their name implies, the myoepithelial cells found at the epithelial-mesenchymal interface of the human mammary gland disclose features suggestive of a dual epithelial-like and muscle-like differentiation, i.e. they co-express various keratins and vimentin intermediate filaments, as well as smooth muscle-related ant...

journal_title：Journal of mammary gland biology and neoplasia

authors： Jolicoeur F

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Notch receptor protein and its signaling pathway have been well conserved throughout evolution and appear to be pivotal components in cell fate decisions during development. Recent studies suggest that, depending on the cellular and developmental context, Notch signaling may also affect cell proliferation and prog...

journal_title：Journal of mammary gland biology and neoplasia

authors： Callahan R,Raafat A

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The IGFBP family comprises six proteins with high affinity for the IGFs and several lower affinity IGFBP-related proteins. Their production in the breast is controlled by hormones, other local regulators and in tumors relates to the estrogen receptor status. Their functional activity can also be affected by various po...

journal_title：Journal of mammary gland biology and neoplasia

authors： Perks CM,Holly JM

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Obesity is a preventable risk factor for breast cancer following menopause. Regardless of menopausal status, obese women who develop breast cancer have a worsened prognosis. Breast tissue is comprised of mammary epithelial cells organized into ducts and lobules and surrounded by adipose-rich connective tissue. Studies...

journal_title：Journal of mammary gland biology and neoplasia

authors： Hillers-Ziemer LE,Arendt LM

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The involvement of molecular mechanisms in a particular process such as embryonic mammary gland development, can be revealed by modulation of one or several factors that purportedly act in that process. If those factors or their inhibitors are soluble, their function can be tested by loading them onto small inert bead...

journal_title：Journal of mammary gland biology and neoplasia

authors： Veltmaat JM

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The One Health concept promotes integrated evaluation of human, animal, and environmental health questions to expedite advances benefiting all species. A recognition of the multi-species impact of mastitis as a painful condition with welfare implications leads us to suggest that mastitis is an ideal target for a One H...

journal_title：Journal of mammary gland biology and neoplasia

authors： Hughes K,Watson CJ

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Localised breast cancer can be cured by surgery and adjuvant treatments, but mortality remains high as some tumours metastasize early. Perlecan is a basement membrane (BM) protein involved in tumour development and progression. Here, mRNA and protein expression of perlecan, and mRNA expression of matrix degrading enzy...

journal_title：Journal of mammary gland biology and neoplasia

authors： Jansson M,Billing O,Herdenberg C,Lundin C,Tolockiene E,Nazemroaya A,Sund M

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Colony stimulating factor 1 (CSF-1), a major regulator of the mononuclear phagocytic lineage, is expressed in more than 70% of human breast cancers and its expression is correlated with poor prognosis. Studies of CSF-1 null mutant mice demonstrated that CSF-1 plays an important role in normal mammary ductal developmen...

journal_title：Journal of mammary gland biology and neoplasia

authors： Lin EY,Gouon-Evans V,Nguyen AV,Pollard JW

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mastitis is an inflammation of the mammary gland commonly caused by bacterial infection. The inflammatory process is a normal and necessary immunological response to invading pathogens. The purpose of host inflammatory responses is to eliminate the source of tissue injury, restore immune homeostasis, and return tissue...

journal_title：Journal of mammary gland biology and neoplasia

authors： Aitken SL,Corl CM,Sordillo LM

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mammary gland is an ectodermal appendage and a defining feature of mammals. Consistent with it being a recent evolutionary novelty, many of the molecules essential for the ontogeny and morphogenesis of various vertebrate organs, including those in the fibroblast growth factor (FGF) signaling pathway, are co-opted ...

journal_title：Journal of mammary gland biology and neoplasia

authors： Kim EJ,Jung HS,Lu P

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00