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University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

Control of Pituitary Hormone Outside of Brain

Caption: Turning on Akt1 in breast epithelial cells (red, yellow) of a virgin mouse for 96 hours causes them to to terminally differentiate and produce milk (green, yellow). Nuclei are shown in blue.

Credit: Chien-Chung Chen, Lewis Chodosh, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

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