Cell-specific expression of estrogen receptor in the human pituitary and its adenomas

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 80, Issue 12, 1995, Pages 3621-3627

  Zafar, Moiz ^a   Ezzat, Shereen ^a   Ramyar, Lily ^a   Pan, Nan ^a   Smyth, Harley S ^a   Asa, Sylvia L ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; ESTROGEN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; FOLLITROPIN; GONADOTROPIN; GROWTH HORMONE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MESSENGER RNA; PROLACTIN; THYROTROPIN;

ARTICLE; CELL SPECIFICITY; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECTOPIC HORMONE PRODUCTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; ONCOCYTOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ADENOMA; BASE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBES; PITUITARY GLAND, ANTERIOR; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0028844411     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: 19457197     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jcem.80.12.8530610     Document Type: Article

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