BREAST CANCER AND THE ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH CENTERS
	Third Annual Early Environmental Exposures Meeting November 2 – 3, 2006 Claremont Hotel, Berkeley, CA

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Abstracts for Poster Presentation

The following abstracts will be available for viewing in rooms Napa I-III, starting at 6 pm on Thursday, November 2. Abstracts will be displayed in numerical order, poster numbers ending in A will be presented from 6:00 to 7:00 pm and poster numbers ending in B will be presented from 7:00 to 8:00 pm. Click on the abstract title to open up a PDF version of the abstract in a new window.

Title & authors	poster number
Progesterone stimulation of proliferation and alveologenesis in adult Balb/c vs. C57Bl/6 mouse mammary glands Aupperlee et al.	15A
“Of Mice and Women”: An innovative educational kit to engage the community on why mice models are used in breast cancer research Barcellos-Hoff et al.	34B
Clinic Visit Procedures In A Prospective Study Of Environmental And Genetic Factors And Puberty: The Cygnet Study Brownell et al.	31A
Evaluating a Cancer Risk Reduction Program Over Time: An Outcome Indicator Approach Carey et al.	36B
Activities of the Community Outreach and Translation Core: Evaluation of the Impact of Recruitment and Retention Activities Claudio & Chace	37A
Fatty Acid Consumption Link with Mammary Carcinogenesis Clegg et al.	3A
Associations between girls’ anxiety and depressive symptoms, mothers’ depressive symptoms and girls’ pubertal development Deardorff et al.	26B
Expression of C/EBPb Isoforms During Mammary Gland Development Durairai et al.	1A
Proportion of Breast Cancer Cases Attributed to Earlier Age at Menarche Erdmann, Christine	28B
Multi-scale in situ sorting reveals a proximal stem cell zone in the mouse mammary gland Fernandez-Gonzales et al.	2B
Transcriptional Regulation of the Murine Progesterone Receptor Flynn et al.	16B
Prenatal Exposure to TCDD Differentially Regulates SOD1, SOD2, and EGFR in the Rat Mammary Gland Jenkins & Lamartiniere	18B
The Possible Role For Progesterone Receptor A In Pregnancy Induced Protection Against Mammary Cancer Kariagina et al.	17A
Heterocyclic amines: Dietary carcinogens with estrogenic activity are consumed at high levels by African American, Asian and Caucasian adolescents. Kulp et al.	25A
RECRUITMENT APPROACH AND BASELINE CHARACTERISTICS IN A PROSPECTIVE STUDY OF YOUNG GIRLS: THE CYGNET STUDY. Kushi et al.	29A
BIRTHWEIGHT IS DIRECTLY ASSOCIATED WITH INCREASED BODY MASS INDEX IN YOUNG GIRLS: THE CYGNET STUDY Kushi et al.	30B
A Prospective Study of Breast Cancer Survivorship in Kaiser Permanente Northern California: The Pathways Study Kwan et al.	32B
Functions of ZNF217, a Gene Amplified During Neoplastic Progression Littlepage & Werb	21A
NCI and NIEHS Collaborative Research on Breast Cancer and the Environment Lynch et al.	42B
Identification of Progestin-Responsive Genes in Mammary Gland Primary Three-Dimensional Organoid Cultures Miksicek et al.	7A
Radiation induced suppression of p16 levels in human mammary epithelial cells Mukhopadhyah et al.	19A
In utero exposure to bisphenol A and mammary gland cancer Murray et al.	9A
Effects of Prenatal Exposure to Bisphenol A (BPA), n-benzyl butyl phthalate (BBP), and 2,3,7,8 Tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD), on the Genomic Profile of the Rat Mammary Gland Pereira et al.	11A
Use of the Stunkard figural stimuli scale to predict risk of diabetes and early breast development Pinney et al.	24B
Nickel Promotes Breast Cancer Cell Proliferation Puckett & Louie	14B
Proteomic evaluation of mammary glands of rats exposed prepubertally to bisphenol A Raghuraman et al.	13A
Concentrations of uranium below the US EPA safe drinking water level stimulate MCF 7 human breast cancer cell growth Raymond-Whish & Dyer	20B
Development of data linkage strategies to study early life exposures and breast cancer in young California women Reynolds et al.	27A
Chemicals causing mammary gland tumors in animals signal new directions for epidemiology, chemicals testing, and risk assessment for breast cancer prevention Rudel et al.	41A
Ovarian Hormone Regulation of Stat5a Expression and its actions in Mammary Epithelial Cells Santos et al.	6B
Adolescent Breast Cancer Prevention, Risk Reduction and Education Project Schwartz & Barlow	33A
Breast Cancer Genomics Informatics Shinde et al.	22B
The Types and Sources of Meaningful Messages about Breast Cancer Smith et al.	39A
Long Distance Learning on Biomonitoring Topics: EnviroCancer Connections Project Snedeker et al.	35A
Dietary fat composition and intake affects DMBA metabolism and DNA adduct formation in breast organoids. Talaska et al.	4B
The xenoestrogen Bisphenol-A alters development of the fetal mouse mammary gland Vandenberg et al.	10B
Clock genes in the rat mammary gland Vanegas et al.	8B
Effects of Prenatal Exposure to Bisphenol A (BPA), n-benzyl butyl phthalate (BBP), and 2,3,7,8 Tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD), on the Mammary Gland Development Wang et al.	12B
Mammary Cancer Chemoprevention with the Polyphenols Genistein and Resveratrol Whitsett et al.	5A
Evaluating the Design and Information of the Top 185 Breast Cancer Websites Whitten et al.	38B
Pilot Study of Biomarkers of Environmental Exposures in BCERC Windham et al.	23A
Environmental Factors and Breast Cancer: Perceptions of New York State Teachers Yang et al.	40B

BREAST CANCER AND THE ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH CENTERS

Third Annual Early Environmental Exposures Meeting

November 2 – 3, 2006 Claremont Hotel, Berkeley, CA

Abstracts for Poster Presentation

November 2 – 3, 2006
Claremont Hotel, Berkeley, CA