Interactions between prolactin and ovarian secretions during mammary tumorigenesis in the mouse

Biomedicine. 1980 Dec;33(8):265-7.

Abstract

The plasma levels of ovarian steroids and the steroid binding capacity in the cytosol of mammary glands have been determined in the low-mammary-tumor C3H/f (XVII) mice. Implantation of a pituitary under the kidney leads to an increase of all these parameters as well as a high mammary tumor incidence. Simultaneous administration of the trans isomer of broparestrol (TBP) leads to a decrease of all the parameters.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Estradiol / metabolism
  • Female
  • Mammary Neoplasms, Experimental / metabolism*
  • Mice
  • Ovary / metabolism*
  • Pituitary Gland / drug effects
  • Pituitary Gland / transplantation
  • Progesterone / metabolism
  • Prolactin / physiology*
  • Receptors, Estrogen / metabolism
  • Receptors, Glucocorticoid / metabolism
  • Receptors, Progesterone / metabolism
  • Stilbenes / pharmacology
  • Transplantation, Homologous

Substances

  • Receptors, Estrogen
  • Receptors, Glucocorticoid
  • Receptors, Progesterone
  • Stilbenes
  • Progesterone
  • Estradiol
  • broparoestrol
  • Prolactin