A mammary gland is an exocrine gland in humans and other mammals that produces milk to feed young offspring. Mammals get their name from the Latin word...
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mammary ridge or mammary crest is a primordium specific for the development of mammary glands. The mammary ridge is primordial for the mammary glands...
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Breast development (redirect from Mammary gland development)
on the chest known as breasts in primates, which serve primarily as mammary glands. The process is mediated by an assortment of hormones (and growth factors)...
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A mammary alveolus (pl.: alveoli, from Latin alveolus, "little cavity") is a small cavity or sac found in the mammary gland. Mammary alveoli are the site...
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A mammary tumor is a neoplasm originating in the mammary gland. It is a common finding in older female dogs and cats that are not spayed, but they are...
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cause permanent breast growth. In females, the breast serves as the mammary gland, which produces and secretes milk to feed infants. Subcutaneous fat...
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Shyamala, G. (1999). "Progesterone Signaling and Mammary Gland Morphogenesis". Journal of Mammary Gland Biology and Neoplasia. 4 (1): 89–104. doi:10.1023/A:1018760721173...
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effective sweat glands in hoofed animals, such as the camels, donkeys, horses, and cattle. Ceruminous glands (which produce ear wax), mammary glands (which produce...
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glands are glands that secrete substances onto an epithelial surface by way of a duct. Examples of exocrine glands include sweat, salivary, mammary,...
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method of secretion. (e.g. mammary gland, sweat gland of arm pit, pubic region, skin around anus, lips and nipples) Holocrine glands – the entire cell disintegrates...
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