Sentence examples for components of the breast from inspiring English sources

The main components of the breast all have specific absorption characteristics as a function of the wavelength.

The epithelial components of the breast are thought to arise from a stem cell population that is capable of both self-renewal and lineage-specific differentiation.

These tools provide useful surrogate models to deepen our understanding of the role of the biochemical and biomechanical components of the breast during normalcy, carcinogenesis and cancer reversal.

The epithelial components of the breast tissue were the source of OPN and TSP-1 expression, whereas TYRP-1 was present in both the epithelial and stromal components.

Here, we describe for the first time, a 3D heterotypic co-culture model including two major cellular components of the breast microenvironment.

Fibroblasts are important cellular components of the breast tumor microenvironment, and recent studies indicate that this cell type is a potential source of CXCL1 expression in breast tumors.

A breast imaging report is a key component of the breast cancer diagnostic process.

Mammographic breast density (MD) is defined by the relative proportion of radiopaque areas, indicating the presence of fibroglandular tissue among the surrounding fatty component of the breast.

Both subtypes have expression patterns reminiscent of the luminal epithelial component of the breast, including expression of luminal cytokeratins 8/18, ER and genes associated with ER activation such as CCND1 (cyclin D1).

As fibroblasts are normal component of the breast and their potential role in cancer progression has already been suggested (Camps et al, 1990; Ohuchida et al, 2004), their involvement in radiation-enhancement of breast cancer cell invasion was assessed.

We also calculate the estimates for the optical properties for each component of the breast tissue, i.e. adipose and fibroglandular tissue, using the compositional priors and compare them to our previous results using prior-free reconstruction and expert segmentation.