Suppression of epithelial apoptosis and delayed mammary gland involution in mice with a conditional knockout of Stat3

Rachel S. Chapman, Paula C. Lourenco, Elizabeth Tonner, David J. Flint, Stefan Selbert, Kiyoshi Takeda, Shizuo Akira, Alan R. Clarke, and Christine J. Watson Cancer Research Campaign (CRC) Laboratories, Department of Pathology, University of Edinburgh, Medical School, Edinburgh EH8 9AG UK; Hannah Research Institute, Ayr, Scotland KA6 5HL UK; Department of Host Defence, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan