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Mapping the zinc-transporting system in mammary cells: molecular analysis reveals a phenotype-dependent zinc-transporting network during lactation.
Journal of cellular physiology - 1 Apr 2012
Kelleher Shannon L, Velasquez Vanessa, Croxford Thomas P, McCormick Nicholas H, Lopez Veronica, MacDavid Joshua
Abstract excerpt
The mammary epithelial cell transitions from a non-secreting to a terminally differentiated, secreting cell during lactation. Zinc (Zn) is a key modulator of phenotypic transition as it regulates over 300 biological functions including transcription, translation, energy transformation, intracellu...
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