15 дек. 2016 г. · Mammographic density decreases and involution of breast tissue increases with age; both are thought to be risk factors for breast cancer.

Postlactational involution is the process following weaning during which the mammary gland undergoes massive cell death and tissue remodeling as it returns ...

Although involution begins well before menopause, it is possible that early changes in ovarian function preceding menopause trigger the onset of involution.

9 сент. 2008 г. · Mammographic density and breast tissue involution are both associated with the risk of breast cancer independently of the other risk factors of ...

15 нояб. 2006 г. · As a woman ages, breast lobules regress, or involute, with a reduction in the number and size of acini per lobule and replacement of the ...

4 февр. 2016 г. · Age-related lobular involution (LI) is a physiological process in which the terminal duct lobular units of the breast regress as a woman ages.

Involution is the process by which the mammary gland returns to its nonlactating state. This process could occur in a gradual way (after peak lactation) or in ...

Involution is characterized by a gradual reduction in the number of the terminal lobular structures of the breast. The lobules progressively atrophy, regressing ...

15 нояб. 2006 г. · Beginning in the premenopausal period, lobular involution is a physiologic process that occurs over many years whereby the parenchymal elements ...

With advancing age, estrogen and progesterone secretions decrease, which causes involution of breast tissue. The involuted breast predominantly contains fatty ...