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Insulin-like growth factor (IGF)-I obliterates the pregnancy-associated protection against mammary carcinogenesis in rats: evidence that IGF-I enhances cancer progression through estrogen receptor-α activation via the mitogen-activated protein kinase pathway

Gudmundur Thordarson*, Nicole Slusher, Harriet Leong, Dafne Ochoa, Lakshmanaswamy Rajkumar, Raphael Guzman, Satyabrata Nandi and Frank Talamantes

Breast Cancer Res 2004, 6:R423-R436 doi:10.1186/bcr812

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Pregnancy in the mature adult mouse does not alter the proportion of mammary epithelial stem/progenitor cells

Kara L Britt, Howard Kendrick, Joseph L Regan, Gemma Molyneux, Fiona-Ann Magnay, Alan Ashworth, Matthew J Smalley Breast Cancer Research 2009, 11:R20 (23 April 2009)

No significant differences exist in stem/progenitor cell numbers between mammary epithelium isolated from mature adult mice that had been through pregnancy at nine weeks old, and age-matched virgin mice.

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Hormone-induced protection of mammary tumorigenesis in genetically engineered mouse models

Lakshmanaswamy Rajkumar, Frances S Kittrell, Raphael C Guzman, Powel H Brown, Satyabrata Nandi, Daniel Medina Breast Cancer Research 2007, 9:R12 (26 January 2007)