Programmed cell death in bovine mammary tissue during lactation and involution.

Abstract:

:Cessation of milk removal causes mammary tissue involution, which in rodents is characterized by extensive tissue degeneration and loss of the majority of luminal epithelial cells by apoptosis. In contrast, bovine mammary tissue shows little histological evidence of tissue remodelling between lactations. In this study, we combined histology with molecular biology to examine the cellular and molecular changes in bovine mammary tissue on cessation of milking. Oligonucleosomal laddering of genomic DNA extracted from lactating tissue indicated that a proportion of cells were dying by apoptosis. This was confirmed by terminal deoxynucleotide transferase-mediated deoxyuridine nick end-labelling of apoptotic cells in lactating tissue sections (TUNEL). One week after cessation of milking, alpha-lactalbumin and alpha S1-casein messenger RNA (mRNA) abundance had decreased by 99 and 85%, respectively, whereas lactoferrin mRNA had increased 20-fold. Drying off was also accompanied by an increase in oligonucleosomal laddering of genomic DNA, and by an increase in the proportion of TUNEL-positive cells, which were localized preferentially in regions where alveolar structure had deteriorated. Therefore, termination of lactation was associated with partial loss of the mammary cell population and dedifferentiation of the remainder.

journal_name

Exp Physiol

journal_title

Experimental physiology

authors

Wilde CJ,Addey CV,Li P,Fernig DG

doi

10.1113/expphysiol.1997.sp004075

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1997-09-01 00:00:00

pages

943-53

issue

5

eissn

0958-0670

issn

1469-445X

journal_volume

82

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