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ArticleCancers2021

Pregnancy Inhibits Mammary Carcinogenesis by Persistently Altering the Hypothalamic-Pituitary Axis.

Ramadevi Subramani, Adriana Estrada, Madeline Dixon, Maria Parada, Sheryl Rodriguez, Diego A Pedroza, Matthew D Ramirez, Alexa Clift, Lilia Garcia, Rajkumar Lakshmanaswamy

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Article in Cancers, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
0.3field-weighted citation impact, top 42% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 3 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Ramadevi SubramaniCenter of Emphasis in Cancer, Department of Molecular and Translational Medicine, Paul L Foster School of Medicine, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso, El Paso, TX 79905, USA.
Adriana EstradaDepartment of Cell Biology & Biochemistry, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, TX 79430, USA.
Madeline DixonPaul L Foster School of Medicine, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso, El Paso, TX 79905 USA.
Maria ParadaGraduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso, El Paso, TX 79905, USA.
Sheryl RodriguezCenter of Emphasis in Cancer, Department of Molecular and Translational Medicine, Paul L Foster School of Medicine, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso, El Paso, TX 79905, USA.
Diego A PedrozaGraduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso, El Paso, TX 79905, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7355-2952
Matthew D RamirezPaul L Foster School of Medicine, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso, El Paso, TX 79905 USA.
Alexa CliftGraduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso, El Paso, TX 79905, USA.
Lilia GarciaGraduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso, El Paso, TX 79905, USA.
Rajkumar LakshmanaswamyCenter of Emphasis in Cancer, Department of Molecular and Translational Medicine, Paul L Foster School of Medicine, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso, El Paso, TX 79905, USA.
Texas Tech University · US

Funding

Department of Defense office of the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program-Breast Cancer Research Program Grant BC16999
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Early full-term pregnancy is known to reduce the lifetime risk of breast cancer. Although the phenomenon of parity-induced protection is well-established, the physiological mechanisms involved in this protection are not clear. Earlier reports have shown that pregnancy results in alterations of hormone levels. How pregnancy affects hypothalamic hormones and how the change, if any, influences breast cancer is not well understood. Seven-week-old female Lewis rats were given N-methyl-N-nitrosourea. Two weeks post carcinogen exposure, a set of females were housed with males to generate the parous rats and another set of rats served as the nulliparous controls. Mammary tumorigenesis was assessed for 9 months. Hypothalamic and pituitary levels of hormones were measured at various timepoints. Further, animals were also challenged with growth hormone and prolactin secretagogues to test the effect of pregnancy on the hypothalamic-pituitary hormonal axis. Persistent alterations in the level of growth hormone-releasing hormone, thyrotropin releasing hormone, dopamine, and somatostatin in the hypothalamus of parous animals was observed. Further, we also observed that pregnancy had a significant effect on the pituitary gland and its response to growth hormone and prolactin secretagogues. Our studies using the rodent model system demonstrate that pregnancy could be reducing the risk of breast cancer by persistently altering the hypothalamic-pituitary axis, which could have implications for breast cancers in humans as well.

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hormoneshypothalamusmammary cancerpituitarypregnancy

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PMID34206988
PMCPMC8267621
OpenAlexW3176376341

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