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The process by which anatomical structures of the mammary gland are generated and organized. Morphogenesis refers to the creation of shape. The mammary gland is a large compound sebaceous gland that in female mammals is modified to secrete milk. Any biological process, occurring at the level of a multicellular organism, pertinent to its function. The reorganization or renovation of existing tissues. This process can either change the characteristics of a tissue such as in blood vessel remodeling, or result in the dynamic equilibrium of a tissue such as in bone remodeling. The form of programmed cell death that triggers the activity of proteolytic caspases, whose actions dismantle the mammary epithelial cells resulting in their death. The tissue remodeling that removes differentiated mammary epithelia during weaning. The process whose specific outcome is the progression of the mammary gland over time, from its formation to the mature structure. The mammary gland is a large compound sebaceous gland that in female mammals is modified to secrete milk. Its development starts with the formation of the mammary line and ends as the mature gland cycles between nursing and weaning stages. The process by which the anatomical structures of a gland are generated and organized. Morphogenesis pertains to the creation of form.

View Gene Ontology (GO) Term

GO TERM SUMMARY
Name: mammary gland involution
Acc: GO:0060056
Aspect: Biological Process
Desc: The tissue remodeling that removes differentiated mammary epithelia during weaning.
Proteins in PDR annotated with:
   This term: 14 [Search]
   Term or descendants: 19 [Search]


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INTERACTIVE GO GRAPH

GO:0060056 - mammary gland involution (interactive image map)
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