Under either of the two circumstances, mammary epithelial cells would grow out of control and eventually result in cancer.
It has also been found that CK plays a critical role in the proliferation of human mammary epithelial cells.
Fatty acid-binding protein 3 gene contains four exons and its function is to arrest growth of mammary epithelial cells.
He took a mammary cell from an adult sheep and prepared its DNA so it would be accepted by an egg from another sheep.
Dolly is derived from a single mammary cell.
Conventional wisdom would have dictated that mammary cells, which are highly differentiated and specialized, could produce only more mammary cells.
Even in a fetus, a fibroblast is as highly specialized and fully differentiated as a mammary cell.
In a study, 8-prenylnaringenin has activated proliferation of mammary cells.
The Posilac then sustains already-present mammary cells, limiting the rate of production decrease after production peaks.
(It was a geek's joke: Dolly was cloned from a mammary cell.)