Mammary stem cells Mammary stem cells provide the source of cells for growth of the mammary gland during puberty and gestation and play an important role in carcinogenesis of the breast.

Of those that don't abort, atrazine causes impaired mammary, or breast, development in the exposed daughters in utero, so that their breast don't develop properly.

(2010) Clinically Oriented Anatomy 6th Ed External links Comparative Mammary Gland Anatomy by W. L. Hurley On the anatomy of the breast by Sir Astley Paston Cooper (1840).