Mammary Development: Growth and Growth Factors. - The environment of the mammary secretory cell. - Role of bovine placental lactogen in intercellular signalling during mammary growth and lactation. - Expression of Hox genes in normal and neoplastic mouse mammary gland. - Local signals for growth cessation and differentiation in the mammary gland. - Apoptosis in mammary gland involution: isolation and characterization of apoptosis-specific genes. - The role of erbB-family genes and Wnt genes in normal and preneoplastic mammary epithelium studied by tissue reconstitution. - VerbB induces abnormal patterns of growth in mammary epithelium. - Interplay between epidermal growth factor receptor and estrogen receptor in progression to hormone independence of human breast cancer. - The effect of plane of nutrition on mammary gland development in prepubertal goats. - Activation of basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF) by heparan sulphate (HS). - High density culture of immuno-magnetically separated human mammary luminal cells. - Molecular analysis of the effects of oestradiol in an in vivo model of normal human breast proliferation. - Juxtacrine growth stimulation of mouse mammary cells in culture. - Fibroblast growth factors in mammary development and cancer. - Evidence of growth factor production by sheep myoepithelial and alveolar epithelial cells: potential for autocrine/paracrine interactions. - Derivation of conditionally immortal mammary cell lines. - Effect of relaxin on primary cultures of goat mammary epithelial cells. - Differential effects of growth factors acting by autocrine and paracrine pathways in breast cancer cells. - Validation of transforming growth factor ß1 binding assay for bovine mammary tissue. - Endocrine effect of IGF-I on mammary growth in prepubertal heifers. - Localcontrol of mammary apoptosis by milk stasis. - Immunolocalisation of insulin-like growth factors and basic fibroblast growth factor in the bovine mammary gland. - Flow sorting and clonal analysis of mouse mammary epithelium. - Cytokine expression in normal and neoplastic breast tissue. - Production of an insulin-like growth factor binding protein by the involuting rat mammary gland. - Developmental and hormonal regulation of Wnt gene expression in the mouse mammary gland. - Mammary Development: Differentiation and Gene Expression. - Extracellular matrix dependent gene regulation in mammary epithelial cells. - ?-lactalbumin regulation and its role in lactation. - Regulation of milk secretion and composition by growth hormone and prolactin. - Basement membrane in the control of mammary gland function. - Asynchronous concurrent secretion of milk proteins in the tammar wallaby (Macropus eugenii). - Heterogeneous expression and synthesis of human serum albumin in the mammary gland of transgenic mice. - Post-transcriptional regulation of casein gene expression by prolactin and growth hormone in lactating rat mammary gland. - Characterisation of transcriptional control elements in the mammary gland and pancreas: studies of the carboxyl ester lipase gene. - Oligosaccharide analysis of epithelial mammary tissues. - Human bile salt-activated lipase: structural organisation at the c-terminus. - Dramatic changes in gap junction expression in the mammary gland during pregnancy lactation and involution. - Aromatase induction in stromal vascular cells from human breast adipose tissue by growth factors. - Developmental regulation of homeobox genes in the mouse mammary gland. - Murine ?-lactalbumin gene inactivation and replacement. - Differential expression of ß-lactoglobulin alleles A and B in dairycattle. - DNA replication ß-casein gene transcription and DNase-I sensitivity of ß-casein gene in rabbit mammary cell nuclei. - Milk Secretion. - Autocrine control of milk secretion: development of the concept. - Endocrine and autocrine strategies for the control of lactation in women and sows. - Autocrine control of milk secretion: from concept to application. - A role for medium-chain fatty acids in the regulation of lipid synthesis in milk stasis?. - The secretory pathway for milk protein secretion and its regulation. - In vitro effects of oxytocin and ionomycin on lipid secretion by rat mammary gland. Role of the myoepithelial cells. - Dose-dependent effects of oxytocin on the microcirculation in the mammary gland of the lactating rat. - Effects of triiodothyronine administration on the disposal of oral [1-14C]-triolein lipoprotein lipase activity and lipogenesis in the rat during lactation and on removal of the litter. - Induction of immune responses in the bovine mammary gland. - Cultured mammary epithelial cells secrete a factor which suppresses lipoprotein lipase production by 3T3-L1 adipocytes. - Localisation of annexin V and annexin VI in lactating mammary epithelial cells. - Appendix I. - Scientific Papers published since 1984 by speakers at this Symposium in the CAB abstracts database. - Contributors. Language: English