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Specialized organ of the body that manufactures and secretes enzymes, hormones, or other chemicals. In animals, glands vary in size from small (for example, tear glands) to large (for example, the pancreas), but in plants they are always small, and may consist of a single cell. Some glands discharge their products internally, endocrine glands, and others externally, exocrine glands. Lymph nodes are sometimes wrongly called glands.
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A passing loss of appropriate regulation in very young animals leads to reproductive changes--for example, in the number of uterine glands or the thickness of the myometrium, the uterus's muscular outer layer--that give way to more pronounced changes through life.
PCBs are endocrine disruptors: mixture affects reproductive ... by McGovern, Victoria / Environmental Health Perspectives
The surface epithelium invaginated into the underlying lamina propria, forming uterine glands (Figure 1).
Effects of Annona squamosa extract on early pregnancy in rats by Damasceno, D.C.; Volpato, G.T.; Sartori, T.C.F.; Rodrigues, P.F.; Perin, E.A.; Calderon, I.M.P.; Rud / Phytomedicine: International Journal of Phytotherapy & Phytopharmacology
Significantly less luminal folding was observed in response to Aroclor 1254 in both the wild-type and Wnt7a +/- samples; however, distinct uterine glands formed precociously (Figure 2C,F).
PCBs exert an estrogenic effect through repression of the Wnt7a ... by Sassoon, David A. / Environmental Health Perspectives
 
 
 
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