... mammary gland development and lactation in female mice. Pups of Mex3c mutant dams die of starvation soon after birth. Milk contents are present in the alveoli but deficient in the ducts of the mammary glands in mutant mice. Mutant mice do not show prolactin or oxytocin deficiency. They also develop...

.... The results suggest that although mammary tissue expresses a volume-sensitive amino acid transport system which is inhibited by anion transport blockers the pathway has no identity with volume-activated anion channels. 25 6 1996 © 1996 Plenum Publishing Corporation 1996 Mammary gland amino...

...S. Vilaró; O. Viñas; E. Herrera; X. Remesar Chronic and acute ethanol treatments increased the 3-hydroxybutyrate uptake by lactating rat mammary gland as a consequence of its high afferent concentration, without changing its relative extraction. The uptake of glucose was inhibited in the ethanol...