Expression and alternative splicing of Pit-1 messenger ribonucleic acid in pituitary adenomas

Neurosurgery

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 362-366

  Hamada, Kazuya ^a   Nishi, Toru ^a   Kuratsu, Jun Ichi ^a   Ushio, Yukitaka ^a  

^a KUMAMOTO UNIV SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alternative splicing; Pit 1 ; Pit 1 ; Pituitary adenoma

Indexed keywords

HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; FROZEN SECTION; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ADENOMA; ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR PROBES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PIT-1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0030034923     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006123-199602000-00026     Document Type: Article

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