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The article analyses the notions of legal culture and monumental architecture. It is presumed that symbolic monumental architecture can be interpreted as legal cultural representations and thereby illustrate legal cultural changes. It is exemplified by the Opera and the debates on grand-mosques in Copenhagen. The claim of the article is that these buildings, the opera and the grand-mosques, can be understood as the growth of a post-national marked based legal culture in contrast to a post-national religious based legal culture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

HC11 mouse mammary epithelial cells are capable of differentiatingin vitro.By growing cells in EGF-containing medium, and upon confluence withdrawing EGF, these cells become competent at responding to lactogenic hormone treatment and expressing milk proteins. We found that during proliferation and at confluence STAT5A and STAT5B proteins were expressed at equal levels or with STAT5B being predominant. In competent cells, expression levels of STAT5A and STAT5B increased markedly with STAT5A now being the predominant form, an expression pattern resembling the expression patterns of STAT5 proteins seen during mammary gland differentiationin vivo.This suggests that EGF has a suppressive effect on STAT5 expression, in particular, STAT5A, which we conclude to be mediated through ras/raf/MEK/MAPK pathway and to a lesser extent through a PI3-kinase-mediated pathway. Furthermore, we also found that EGF regulated a nuclear phosphatase capable of dephosphorylating tyrosine-phosphorylated STAT5. Our data show that HC11 cells have retained the expression patterns of STAT5 proteins seenin vivo.This makes HC11 cells useful for studying molecular mechanisms regulating expression of STAT factors and their participation in differentiation processes of mammary gland.