Mammary gland as an endocrine organ: implications for mastectomy

The mammary gland as an immunological or

The mammary gland as an immunological organ

✍ Lars Å. Hanson 📂 Article 📅 1982 🏛 Elsevier Science 🌐 English ⚖ 468 KB

Heparin inhibition of autonomous growth

Heparin inhibition of autonomous growth implicates amphiregulin as an autocrine growth factor for normal human mammary epithelial cells

✍ Shiwei Li; Gregory D. Plowman; Sharon D. Buckley; Gary D. Shipley 📂 Article 📅 1992 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 952 KB

## Abstract Normal human mammary epithelial cells (HMECs) proliferate in a serum‐free defined growth medium in the absence of epidermal growth factor (Li and Shipley, 1991). Amphiregulin (AR) is a heparin‐regulated, EGF‐like growth factor. Our observation that one strain of HMECs produce AR mRNA (C