The transcription activator steroidogenic factor-1 is preferentially expressed in the human pituitary gonadotroph

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 81, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 2165-2170

  Asa, Sylvia L ^a   Bamberger, Ana Maria ^c   Cao, Bruce ^b   Wong, Margaret ^d   Parker, Keith L ^d   Ezzat, Shereen ^b  

^a MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN; GLOBIN MESSENGER RNA; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; STEROIDOGENIC FACTOR 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADENOHYPOPHYSIS; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GONADOTROPIN SECRETING CELL; HORMONAL REGULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; STEROIDOGENESIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ADENOMA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CELLS, CULTURED; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; FUSHI TARAZU TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; GONADOTROPINS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PITUITARY GLAND, ANTERIOR; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECEPTORS, CYTOPLASMIC AND NUCLEAR; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0030013893     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.81.6.2165     Document Type: Article

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