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Cancer Focus vitro organogenesis

In vitro organogenesis of the human breast ductal network.
Ductal progenitors from living human breast tissue
were isolated and embedded in 3D culture.  A ductal network
forms in response to amphiregulin and fibroblast
growth factor 7.  The ducts are comprised of
a luminal layer (stained with K8 [red])
and a basal layer (stained with K14 [blue] and p63 [green]).

Courtesy of Dr. D. Lannigan

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