ErbB4/HER4: role in mammary gland development, differentiation and growth inhibition.

abstract：:Originally adapted from the neurosphere assay, the nonadherent mammosphere assay has been utilized to assess early progenitor/stem cell frequency in a given population of mammary epithelial cells. This method has also been used to measure the frequency of tumorsphere initiating cells in both primary mammary tumors as ...

journal_title：Journal of mammary gland biology and neoplasia

authors： Rota LM,Lazzarino DA,Ziegler AN,LeRoith D,Wood TL

更新日期：2012-06-01 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：: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：:Transforming growth factor beta (TGF-beta) receptor expression and signal transduction in human breast cancer are reviewed as a function of estrogen receptor (ER) expression. ER+ breast cancer cells are generally resistant to the inhibitory effects of TGF-beta. The only known exception appears to be MCF-7 early passag...

journal_title：Journal of mammary gland biology and neoplasia

authors： Brattain MG,Ko Y,Banerji SS,Wu G,Willson JK

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Breast cancer (BC) is a leading cause of death among women with malignant diseases. The selection of adequate therapies for highly invasive and metastatic BCs still represents a major challenge. Novel combinatorial therapeutic approaches are urgently required to enhance the efficiency of BC treatment. Recently, microR...

journal_title：Journal of mammary gland biology and neoplasia

authors： Petrović N,Nakashidze I,Nedeljković M

更新日期：2021-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Mouse modeling of human breast cancer has developed tremendously over the past ten years. Human breast cancer is characterized by enormous biological diversity and, collectively, the new models have come much closer to encompassing this diversity. They have provided a deeper understanding of the fundamental events tha...

journal_title：Journal of mammary gland biology and neoplasia

authors： Allred DC,Medina D

更新日期：2008-09-01 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：: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：: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：:Dynamic interactions between the hormone responsive mammary gland epithelium and surrounding stromal macrophage populations are critical for normal development and function of the mammary gland. Macrophages are versatile cells capable of diverse roles in mammary gland development and maintenance of homeostasis, and th...

journal_title：Journal of mammary gland biology and neoplasia

authors： Sun X,Ingman WV

更新日期：2014-07-01 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：:Milk is primarily regarded as a food furnishing essential nutrients for infant growth and development, but milk can also serve as a vehicle for mother to neonate transfer of molecules that regulate development. A wide array of biologically active compounds such as hormones, cytokines and enzymes are present in milk, e...

journal_title：Journal of mammary gland biology and neoplasia

authors： Ellis LA,Mastro AM,Picciano MF

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human mammary epithelial cells emerge spontaneously from senescence, exhibiting eroding telomeric sequences, and ultimately enter crisis to generate the type of chromosomal abnormalities seen in early stages of breast cancer. In a mouse mammary tumor model, the spontaneous escape of senescence can be observed as an in...

journal_title：Journal of mammary gland biology and neoplasia

authors： Said TK,Medina D

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Analysis of genes and proteins involved in lipid biosynthesis in mammary epithelial cells (MECs) is complicated by the presence of adipose tissue in the mammary gland, which may be predominant in whole tissue lysates depending upon developmental stage. We have developed a method based on protocols used to establish pr...

journal_title：Journal of mammary gland biology and neoplasia

authors： Rudolph MC,Wellberg EA,Anderson SM

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to produce and expel milk is important for the health and survival of all mammals. Nevertheless, our understanding of the molecular events underlying the execution of this process remains incomplete. Whilst impaired mammary gland development and lactational competence remains the subject of focused investi...

journal_title：Journal of mammary gland biology and neoplasia

authors： Stewart TA,Davis FM

更新日期：2020-11-19 00:00:00

abstract：:With improved screening methods, the numbers of abnormal breast lesions diagnosed in women have been increasing over time. However, it remains unclear whether these breast lesions will develop into invasive cancers. To more effectively predict the outcome of breast lesions and determine a more appropriate course of tr...

journal_title：Journal of mammary gland biology and neoplasia

authors： Bernard S,Myers M,Fang WB,Zinda B,Smart C,Lambert D,Zou A,Fan F,Cheng N

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Premalignant breast disease in humans is a concept that admits to a broad range of elements and possible determinants predicting the likelihood of developing breast cancer. Most of these elements are relative, such as the risk of breast cancer for women that is 130 times that of men and peaks at a younger age by about...

journal_title：Journal of mammary gland biology and neoplasia

authors： Page DL,Jensen RA,Simpson JF,Dupont WD

更新日期：2000-10-01 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：:The Hedgehog pathway is critical for many developmental processes, including the formation of several epidermal appendages. In the mammary gland strict regulation of the Hedgehog pathway is required for normal development. Alterations in Hedgehog signaling result in defects in both the embryonic and postnatal mammary ...

journal_title：Journal of mammary gland biology and neoplasia

authors： Hatsell S,Frost AR

更新日期：2007-09-01 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：: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：: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：: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：: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 insulin-like growth factors (IGFs) signaling via the type I insulin-like growth factor receptor (IGF-1R) regulate multiple aspects of malignancy. The importance of IGF-1R in regulating the malignant phenotype is currently being validated in numerous clinical trials for cancer including breast cancer. This review d...

journal_title：Journal of mammary gland biology and neoplasia

authors： Sachdev D

更新日期：2008-12-01 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：:Various retroviral and lentiviral vectors have been used for up-the-teat intraductal injection to deliver markers, oncogenes, and other genes into mammary epithelial cells in mice. These methods along with the large number of genetically engineered mouse lines have greatly helped us learn normal breast development and...

journal_title：Journal of mammary gland biology and neoplasia

authors： Bu W,Li Y

更新日期：2020-11-09 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：:Carcinogenesis is a complex process during which cells undergo genetic and epigenetic alterations. These changes can lead tumor cells to acquire characteristics that enable movement from the primary site of origin when conditions become unfavorable. Such characteristics include gain of front-rear polarity, increased m...

journal_title：Journal of mammary gland biology and neoplasia

authors： Howe EN,Cochrane DR,Richer JK

更新日期：2012-03-01 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