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Role of Prolactin/Prolactin Receptor Signaling in Human Breast Cancer
1 Dec 2003
Abstract excerpt
Prolactin (PRL), a hormone utilized at both the endocrine and autocrine levels, stimulates breast epithelial growth, differentiation, and motility. Recent data at the cellular, epidemiologic, and genetic levels have implicated a significant role for this hormone in the pathogenesis of human breast cancer. A family of prolactin receptor (PRLr) isoforms mediates the effects of PRL in human tissue. Now numbering...
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