Intercellular Signalling in the Mammary Gland

Mammary Development: Growth and Growth Factors.- The environment of the mammary secretory cell.- Role of bovine placental lactogen in intercellular signalling during mammary growth and lactation.- Expression of Hox genes in normal and neoplastic mouse mammary gland.- Local signals for growth cessation and differentiation in the mammary gland.- Apoptosis in mammary gland involution: isolation and characterization of apoptosis-specific genes.- The role of erbB-family genes and Wnt genes in normal and preneoplastic mammary epithelium, studied by tissue reconstitution.- VerbB induces abnormal patterns of growth in mammary epithelium.- Interplay between epidermal growth factor receptor and estrogen receptor in progression to hormone independence of human breast cancer.- The effect of plane of nutrition on mammary gland development in prepubertal goats.- Activation of basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF) by heparan sulphate (HS).- High density culture of immuno-magnetically separated human mammary luminal cells.- Molecular analysis of the effects of oestradiol in an in vivo model of normal human breast proliferation.- Juxtacrine growth stimulation of mouse mammary cells in culture.- Fibroblast growth factors in mammary development and cancer.- Evidence of growth factor production by sheep myoepithelial and alveolar epithelial cells: potential for autocrine/paracrine interactions.- Derivation of conditionally immortal mammary cell lines.- Effect of relaxin on primary cultures of goat mammary epithelial cells.- Differential effects of growth factors acting by autocrine and paracrine pathways in breast cancer cells.- Validation of transforming growth factor ß1 binding assay for bovine mammary tissue.- Endocrine effect of IGF-I on mammary growth in prepubertal heifers.- Localcontrol of mammary apoptosis by milk stasis.- Immunolocalisation of insulin-like growth factors and basic fibroblast growth factor in the bovine mammary gland.- Flow sorting and clonal analysis of mouse mammary epithelium.- Cytokine expression in normal and neoplastic breast tissue.- Production of an insulin-like growth factor binding protein by the involuting rat mammary gland.- Developmental and hormonal regulation of Wnt gene expression in the mouse mammary gland.- Mammary Development: Differentiation and Gene Expression.- Extracellular matrix dependent gene regulation in mammary epithelial cells.- ?-lactalbumin regulation and its role in lactation.- Regulation of milk secretion and composition by growth hormone and prolactin.- Basement membrane in the control of mammary gland function.- Asynchronous concurrent secretion of milk proteins in the tammar wallaby (Macropus eugenii).- Heterogeneous expression and synthesis of human serum albumin in the mammary gland of transgenic mice.- Post-transcriptional regulation of casein gene expression by prolactin and growth hormone in lactating rat mammary gland.- Characterisation of transcriptional control elements in the mammary gland and pancreas: studies of the carboxyl ester lipase gene.- Oligosaccharide analysis of epithelial mammary tissues.- Human bile salt-activated lipase: structural organisation at the c-terminus.- Dramatic changes in gap junction expression in the mammary gland during pregnancy, lactation and involution.- Aromatase induction in stromal vascular cells from human breast adipose tissue by growth factors.- Developmental regulation of homeobox genes in the mouse mammary gland.- Murine ?-lactalbumin gene inactivation and replacement.- Differential expression of ß-lactoglobulin alleles A and B in dairycattle.- DNA replication, ß-casein gene transcription and DNase-I sensitivity of ß-casein gene in rabbit mammary cell nuclei.- Milk Secretion.- Autocrine control of milk secretion: development of the concept.- Endocrine and autocrine strategies for the control of lactation in women and sows.- Autocrine control of milk secretion: from concept to application.- A role for medium-chain fatty acids in the regulation of lipid synthesis in milk stasis?.- The secretory pathway for milk protein secretion and its regulation.- In vitro effects of oxytocin and ionomycin on lipid secretion by rat mammary gland. Role of the myoepithelial cells.- Dose-dependent effects of oxytocin on the microcirculation in the mammary gland of the lactating rat.- Effects of triiodothyronine administration on the disposal of oral [1-14C]-triolein, lipoprotein lipase activity and lipogenesis in the rat during lactation and on removal of the litter.- Induction of immune responses in the bovine mammary gland.- Cultured mammary epithelial cells secrete a factor which suppresses lipoprotein lipase production by 3T3-L1 adipocytes.- Localisation of annexin V and annexin VI in lactating mammary epithelial cells.- Appendix I.- Scientific Papers published since 1984 by speakers at this Symposium in the CAB abstracts database.- Contributors.