mammary duct

There is also a decrease in the number of mammary ducts.

Abundant amounts of Pten were detected in mammary ducts from wild type mice.

These are small, wart-like growths in the lining of the mammary duct near the nipple.

Mammary duct ectasia can mimic breast cancer.

Postnatally, the mammary ducts elongate into the mammary fat pad.

By the pubertal stage, the mammary ducts have invaded to the end of the mammary fat pad.

Mammary duct ectasia.

The German professor Wilhelm Fabry believed that breast cancer was caused by a milk clot in a mammary duct.

Normal mammary ducts within infiltrating cancer showed intermediate levels of HGF/SF.

They are also referred to as galactophores, galactophorous ducts, mammary ducts, mamillary ducts and milk ducts.

On the other hand, basement membrane along the mature mammary ducts is thicker, with strong adhesion to epithelial cells via binding to integrin and non-integrin receptors.

Carcinoma in situ is growth of low grade cancerous or precancerous cells within a particular tissue compartment such as the mammary duct without invasion of the surrounding tissue.

Shrinkage of the mammary duct tree and ECM remodeling by various proteinase is under the control of somatostatin and other growth inhibiting hormones and local factors.

Duct ectasia of the breast or (mammary duct ectasia) or (Plasma cell mastitis) is a condition in which the lactiferous duct becomes blocked or clogged.