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Perinatal Exposure to Bisphenol A Increases Adult Mammary Gland Progesterone Response and Cell Number

Cathrin Brisken, Jacques Rougemont, Ayyakkannu Ayyanan, Tamara Tanos, Christina Schrick

Bisphenol A [BPA, 2,2,-bis (hydroxyphenyl) propane] is one of the highest-volume chemicals produced worldwide. It is detected in body fluids of more than 90% of the human population. Originally synthesized as an estrogenic compound, it is currently utilize ...

Endocrine Society2011

Amphiregulin mediates self-renewal in an immortal mammary epithelial cell line with stem cell characteristics

Cathrin Brisken, Lucia Jimenez Rojo

Amphiregulin (AREG), a ligand for epidermal growth factor receptor, is required for mammary gland ductal morphogenesis and mediates estrogen actions in vivo, emerging as an essential growth factor during mammary gland growth and differentiation. The COMMA- ...

Elsevier2010

Two distinct mechanisms underlie progesterone-induced proliferation in the mammary gland

Cathrin Brisken, Ayyakkannu Ayyanan, Marian Caikovski

The mouse mammary gland develops postnatally under the control of female reproductive hormones. Estrogens and progesterone trigger morphogenesis by poorly understood mechanisms acting on a subset of mammary epithelial cells (MECs) that express their cognat ...

National Academy of Sciences2010

Role of canonical Wnt signaling in mammary gland development

Renuga Devi Rajaram

The female reproductive hormones estrogens, progesterone, and prolactin control postnatal breast development and are important to breast carcinogenesis. In particular, exposure to progesterone is tightly linked to breast cancer risk. Using the mouse as a m ...

EPFL2010

Antagonistic roles of Notch and p63 in controlling mammary epithelial cell fates

Cathrin Brisken, Maryse Fiche

The breast epithelium has two major compartments, luminal and basal cells, that are established and maintained by poorly understood mechanisms. The p53 homolog, p63, is required for the formation of mammary buds, but its function in the breast after birth ...

Nature Publishing Group2010

Hormone Action in the Mammary Gland

Cathrin Brisken

A woman's breast cancer risk is affected by her reproductive history. The hormonal milieu also influences the course of the disease. The female reproductive hormones, estrogens, progesterone, and prolactin, have a major impact on breast cancer and control ...

2010

In Vivo extended focus Optical Coherence Microscopy of endocrine islets of Langerhans in mice

Theo Lasser, Michael Friedrich, Rainer Leitgeb, Anne Grapin-Botton, Martin Villiger, Joan Goulley

Rapid acquisition of volumetric data is a mandatory prerequisite for small animal in vivo imaging. Due to its high sensitivity and capacity to extract the sample depth profile in parallel Fourier Domain Optical Coherence Tomography (FDOCT) complies with th ...

2009

Probing the differential adhesion hypothesis in the mammary gland using different bioengineered cell culture substrata

Léa Chanson

During tissue development, cells are able to form different layers and to self organize. At the moment, there are two principal hypotheses that try to explain cell sorting. The so called differential adhesion hypothesis (DAH) posits that cells organize acc ...

2009

Hormonal regulation of Stat5 in the mammary gland - from signaling to morphogenesis

Sergio Klinke

The mammary gland development is regulated by steroid and peptide hormones and occurs mainly after birth, compared to the majority of the other organs in the body. The principal hormones responsible for the breast development are the estrogen, the progeste ...

2008

Swiss Cancer Center (Gland, VD)

Patrick DeCaro

Cancer: growth caused by uncontrolled and abnormal cell division, resulting in a non-structured mass or tumor, serving no beneficial purpose to the body. Even though cancer is one of the leading fatal diseases of today's world, with no distinction for age, ...

2008

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