| 单词 | milk factor |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmilk factor milk factor n. Medicine (a) a factor involved in the causation of mammary tumours in mice, transmitted from mother to offspring in milk (later identified as the mouse mammary tumour virus) (now historical); (b) any of various incompletely characterized substances present in milk that have some specific physiological effect. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > [noun] > disease of breast > predisposition to breast cancer milk factor1939 1939 J. J. Bittner in Public Health Rep. (U.S. Public Health Service) 54 1115 The breast cancer observations..may be explained by a theory..assuming that three ‘factors’ are needed... These factors are: (A) A ‘breast cancer-producing influence’ transferred through the milk of high-cancer stock females to their progeny. This has been designated as the ‘milk factor’ in the tables. 1943 C. F. Geschickter Dis. Breast xxxv. 800 This so-called milk-factor or milk-influence has been extracted from the mammary glands of lactating cancer-susceptible mice by Bittner and shown to increase the incidence of mammary cancer whether injected in, or fed to young mice. 1966 G. P. Wright & W. S. Symmers Systemic Pathol. I. xxviii. 990/1 There is no evidence that a milk factor plays any part in the occurrence of carcinoma of the breast in women. There is no way by which such a factor can be demonstrated. 1986 Endocrinologia Experimentalis 20 155 The contribution of a hypothetic milk factor in the masculinization process of gonadotropin secretion pattern was investigated. 1998 Inflammation Res. 47 384 Effects of hyperimmune milk factor (HIMF), an anti-inflammatory factor from milk of hyperimmunised cows, on tight junction permeability and cell growth were studied. < as lemmas |
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