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Postnatal mammary gland development is composed of several stages (after birth, puberty, adult, pregnancy, lactation, involution, and menopause). Highlighted are the known key hedgehog signaling components expression found essential at each stage of mammary adult female breast. It should be noted that other Hh components are found expressed at various stages, yet the highlighted compounds are the ones found important for that stage of development.
