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A recent study of βERKO mice has shown that ERβ is not required for the normal prepubertal development of the mammary gland but for organization and adhesion of epithelial cells during pregnancy and hence for differentiated tissue morphology [ 23 ] . These observations indicate a possibility of complementary (sequential) roles of ERα and ERβ, since ERα appears to be required for the basic development of estrogen sensitive tissues and ERβ seems to be required for their functional maturation.
Female mice harboring the Wnt-1 transgene develop extensive mammary hyperplasia early in life, and 50% of them develop mammary ductal carcinomas by 6 months of age [ 27].
In addition, increased proliferation of mammary cells is induced with antisense oligonucleotides to BRCA1 [ 51].
In our cross, one of the four tumors from Wnt-1 TG males, in an otherwise wild type background, was a mammary carcinoma; the other three tumors were salivary in origin, with a similar histopathology to the mammary lesion.
(Unfertilized eggs contain only the mother's half of genes; by adding the genes from an adult mammary cell--which has both its mother's and father's genes--the egg cell then had the full amount of DNA found in adult sheep cells.)