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Old 10-19-2010, 07:00 AM   #1
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New Mechanism With Suspected Role In Cancer Identified

If women had no prolactin receptors on cells in their mammary glands, they would not produce milk when they were nursing. Prolactin receptors are also found in other organs including the lung and the colon. The only problem is that these receptors are sort of like cellular wiring, and when the wrong conditions bring them together, the resulting short circuit can produce cancer...

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