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Since sexual maturity is achieved at approximately 11 weeks of age in rats, this means that the chemopreventive agent is given during a period of active development of the mammary gland.
Each animal rubs the lower portion of its jaw on a gland in the other's mid-dorsum.
This study demonstrates that exposure of juvenile females to pheromone from a single source, the male suprasternal gland, accelerates ovarian follicular development and first estrus.
It is known that TGF-β3 plays a role in cardiac morphogenesis, mammary gland development and wound healing and that TGF-β3 is involved in fine-tuned interactions between epithelial and mesenchymal cells and their products [ 34 ] . The exact role of TGF-β3 in vascular remodeling response remains unclear.
The mechanisms that alter gonadotrope responsiveness to GnRH are unknown but they do not appear to be due to GnRH receptor number or LH stores in the pituitary gland [ 5 6 7 8 ] . However, the fraction of LH that is released by a maximal dose of GnRH does vary positively with gonadotrope responsiveness [ 7 ] , and elucidation of the mechanisms altering the fraction of releasable LH is likely to illuminate mechanisms of gonadotrope responsiveness to GnRH [ 44 ] .