Mammary gland 'remembers' prior pregnancy, spurring milk production Date: May 7, 2015 Source: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Summary: Anecdotal reports of nursing mothers have long suggested that ...

The mammary gland in previously pregnant mice (bottom row) produces milk earlier in a second pregnancy than in mice of the same age experiencing pregnancy for the first time (top row). For ...

Human mammary glands contain sugars that avian influenza can latch onto to infect cells, researchers report August 8 at medRxiv.org. The finding, which has not yet been peer-reviewed, raises the ...

Mammary glands are the organs that, in the female mammal, produce milk for the sustenance of the young. These exocrine glands are enlarged and modified sweat glands and are the characteristic of ...

The mammary gland is composed of epithelial, adipose and other stromal cells, which work in concert for the primary goal of producing milk during nursing. In the female mouse, five rudimentary ...

Having trouble producing milk might be written in some women's genes, scientists claim. Mutations in a specific protein called ZnT2 can stop mammary glands developing, they found (file photo) ...

This virus has an exquisite fondness for mammary tissue and is expressed in milk,” Eric Deeble, acting senior adviser for USDA’s bird flu response team, told reporters Tuesday.

By Pamela Fayerman Published Nov 24, 2008 Last updated May 26, 2011 3 minute read A microscopic image of human milk (darkened) being produced in a regenerated mammary gland grown from human breast ...

BIOMILQ – a startup producing breastmilk by culturing human mammary cells - has raised $3.5m to meet the needs of the four fifths of women who transition to dairy-based formula before the ...

This indicates that the lactating mammary gland can sense calcium increases and losses and adjusts its secretion of calcium accordingly. This helps match milk production with the availability of ...

Maria Hillreiner, Nadine I. Müller, Heiner M. Koch, Christiane Schmautz, Bernhard Küster, Michael W. Pfaffl, Heike Kliem, Establishment of a 3D cell culture model of primary bovine mammary epithelial ...