The hormonal profile of benign breast disease
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Hormonal Investigation in Benign Breast Disease
The hormone-responsiveness of breast tissue and the hormone-dependence of its morphostructural modifications and functional potent"ialities are generally acknowledged. A chronologically and quantitatively precise ratio between the two hormones that condition its development, estradiol and progesterone, is necessary to assure breast eutrophy. Estradiol-induced cell proliferation in galactophorou...
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عنوان ژورنال: British Journal of Cancer
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0007-0920,1532-1827
DOI: 10.1038/bjc.2012.493