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- Title
Extended breastfeeding may protect against breast cancer.
- Abstract
The article reports on the study of a mouse model conducted by researchers at the Thomas Jefferson University in Pennsylvania. It found that mice deficient in caveolin-3 (Cav-3), a muscle-specific calveolin-related gene expressed in muscle and mammary gland cells, had upregulated genes associated with lactation resulting in constitutive production of milk. Therefore, the study suggests that extended breastfeeding might protect humans against breast cancer.
- Subjects
PHILADELPHIA (Pa.); PENNSYLVANIA; BREASTFEEDING; BREAST cancer; LABORATORY mice; LACTATION; THOMAS Jefferson University
- Publication
Women's Health (17455057), 2009, Vol 5, Issue 2, p113
- ISSN
1745-5057
- Publication type
Article