Hormonal regulation of mammary gland development and lactation

FM Hannan, T Elajnaf, LN Vandenberg… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Lactation is critical to infant short-term and long-term health and protects mothers from
breast cancer, ovarian cancer and type 2 diabetes mellitus. The mammary gland is a …

STAT family of transcription factors in breast cancer: Pathogenesis and therapeutic opportunities and challenges

GL Wong, SG Manore, DL Doheny, HW Lo - Seminars in cancer biology, 2022 - Elsevier
Breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer and second-leading cause of cancer
deaths in women. Breast cancer stem cells (BCSCs) promote metastasis and therapeutic …

Stigmasterol Activates the mTOR Signaling Pathway by Inhibiting ORP5 Ubiquitination to Promote Milk Synthesis in Bovine Mammary Epithelial Cells

M Sun, Y Cao, J Cheng, D Xu, F Li… - Journal of Agricultural …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Stigmasterol (ST), a phytosterol found in food, has various biological activities. However, the
effect of ST on milk synthesis in dairy cows remains unclear. Therefore, bovine primary …

Hypercalcemia in Cancer: Causes, Effects, and Treatment Strategies

P Bartkiewicz, D Kunachowicz, M Filipski, A Stebel… - Cells, 2024 - mdpi.com
Calcium plays central roles in numerous biological processes, thereby, its levels in the blood
are under strict control to maintain homeostatic balance and enable the proper functioning of …

Re-Evaluating the Role of PTHrP in Breast Cancer

JF Kane, RW Johnson - Cancers, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Parathyroid-hormone-related protein (PTHrP) is produced in normal breast
and breast cancer cells and causes bone destruction when expressed by cancer cells that …

PTHrP intracrine actions divergently influence breast cancer growth through p27 and LIFR

CM Edwards, JF Kane, JA Smith, DM Grant… - Breast Cancer …, 2024 - Springer
The role of parathyroid hormone (PTH)-related protein (PTHrP) in breast cancer remains
controversial, with reports of PTHrP inhibiting or promoting primary tumor growth in …

Progress in Research on Key Factors Regulating Lactation Initiation in the Mammary Glands of Dairy Cows

H Guo, J Li, Y Wang, X Cao, X Lv, Z Yang, Z Chen - Genes, 2023 - mdpi.com
Lactation initiation refers to a functional change in the mammary organ from a non-lactating
state to a lactating state, and a series of cytological changes in the mammary epithelium …

Cancer-Associated Hypercalcemia Signals Through the Hindbrain to cause Anorexia

DY Grinman, FM Takyar, P Dann, M Shanabrough… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Hypercalcemia, caused by tumor secretion of parathyroid hormone-related protein (PTHrP),
is associated with anorexia and weight loss. We demonstrate that overexpression of PTHrP …

FOXA1 is required for ErbB2 expression and luminal differentiation in HER2-positive breast cancer

J Jeong, J Lee, J Lim, J Shin, K Yoo, J Kim, Y Tanaka… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Forkhead box protein A1 (FOXA1), a pioneering transcriptional factor known for its critical
roles in prostate and ERα–positive breast cancer, is also expressed in human epidermal …