Representative tissue sections from breast tissue associated with low (left panels) and high (right panels) mammographic density

Copyright information:Taken from "Mammographic density is related to stroma and stromal proteoglycan expression"Breast Cancer Research 2003;5(5):R129-R135.Published online 23 Jul 2003PMCID:PMC314426.Copyright © 2003 Alowami et al., licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article: verbatim copying and redistribution of this article are permitted in all media for any purpose, provided this notice is preserved along with the article's original URL. Increased collagenous stroma (upper right) and expression of lumican (middle right) and decorin (lower right) is present in breast tissue associated with high mammographic density. H&E sections (upper panels), lumican immunohistochemistry (middle panels), decorin immunohistochemistry (lower panels).