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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
4
pubmed:dateCreated
2006-3-15
pubmed:abstractText
In recent years, the number of researchers interested in mammary development and mammary function in dairy animals has declined. More importantly this cadre of workers has come to rely more than ever on scientists focused on and funded by breast cancer interests to provide fundamental mechanistic and basic cellular insights. Philosophically and practically this is a risky path to better understand, manipulate, and control a national resource as important as the dairy cow. The efficiency, resourcefulness, and dedication of dairy scientists have mirrored the actions of many dairy producers but there are limits. Many of the applications of research, use of bovine somatotropin, management of transition cows, estrus synchronization techniques, and so on, are based on decades-old scientific principles. Specific to dairy, do rodents or breast cancer cell lines adequately represent the dairy cow? Will these results inspire the next series of lactation-related dairy improvements? These are key unanswered questions. Study of the classic mammogenic and lactogenic hormones has served dairy scientists well. But there is an exciting, and bewildering universe of growth factors, transcription factors, receptors, intracellular signaling intermediates, and extracellular molecules that must ultimately interact to determine the size of the mature udder and the functional capacity of mammary gland in the lactating cow. We can only hope that enough scientific, fiscal, and resource scraps fall from the biomedical research banquet table to allow dairy-focused mammary gland research to continue.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Epidermal Growth Factor, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Fibroblast Growth Factors, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Growth Hormone, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Growth Substances, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Hormones, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Insulin-Like Growth Factor Binding..., http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Insulin-Like Growth Factor I, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Insulin-Like Growth Factor II, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Leptin, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Prolactin, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Transforming Growth Factor beta, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/growth hormone, bovine
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Apr
pubmed:issn
1525-3198
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
89
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1222-34
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:16537955-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:16537955-Cattle, pubmed-meshheading:16537955-Dairying, pubmed-meshheading:16537955-Epidermal Growth Factor, pubmed-meshheading:16537955-Female, pubmed-meshheading:16537955-Fibroblast Growth Factors, pubmed-meshheading:16537955-Growth Hormone, pubmed-meshheading:16537955-Growth Substances, pubmed-meshheading:16537955-Hormones, pubmed-meshheading:16537955-Insulin-Like Growth Factor Binding Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:16537955-Insulin-Like Growth Factor I, pubmed-meshheading:16537955-Insulin-Like Growth Factor II, pubmed-meshheading:16537955-Lactation, pubmed-meshheading:16537955-Leptin, pubmed-meshheading:16537955-Mammary Glands, Animal, pubmed-meshheading:16537955-Prolactin, pubmed-meshheading:16537955-Signal Transduction, pubmed-meshheading:16537955-Transforming Growth Factor beta
pubmed:year
2006
pubmed:articleTitle
Major advances associated with hormone and growth factor regulation of mammary growth and lactation in dairy cows.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Dairy Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, 24061, USA. rma@vt.edu
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Review