Includes bibliographical references and index.

Breast cancer stem cells: current advances and clinical implications / Ming Luo [and six others] -- A protocol for studying embryonic mammary progenitor cells during mouse mammary primordial development in explant culture / Naoko Kogata and Beatrice A. Howard -- FACS sorting mammary stem cells / Oihana Iriondo, Miriam Rábano, and María d.M. Vivanco -- Side population / Fariba Behbod and María d.M. Vivanco -- Single-cell genome and transcriptome processing prior to high-throughput sequencing / Ana M. Aransay [and three others] -- SHotgun proteomocs on tissue specimens extracted with acid guanidinium-thiocyanate-phenol-chloroform / René B. H. Braakman, Anieta M. Sieuwerts, and Arzu Umar -- Antibody-based capture of target peptides in multiple reaction monitoring experiments / Tommaso De Marchi [and three others] -- Lentiviral transduction of mammary epithelial cells / Richard Iggo and Elodie Richard -- The transplantation of mouse mammary epithelial cells into cleared mammary fat pads / Marisa M Faraldo, Marina A. Glukhova, and Marie-Ange Deugnier -- Humanization of the mouse mammary gland / A. Wronski, L. M. Arendt, and Charlotte Kuperwasser -- Lineage tracing in the mammary gland using Cre/lox technology and fluorescent reporter alleles / Renée van Amerongen -- Modeling the breast cancer bone metastatic niche in complex three-dimensional cocultures / Rebecca Marlow and Gabriela Dontu -- Mammary cancer stem cells reinitiation assessment at the metastatic niche: the lung and bone / Marc Guiu [and four others] -- Nanomechanical characterization of living mammary tissues by atomic force microscopy / Marija Plodinec and Anna Marciniak-Czochra -- Mathematical modeling as a tool to understand cell self-renewal and differentiation / Philipp Getto and Anna Marciniak-Czochra -- Mammary stem cells: a clinician's view / José Schneider.