Ain't misbehavin': Reflections on the functional differences among anterior pituitary cells

Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology

Volumn 123, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 1-6

  Schwartz, Jeffrey ^a   Gracia Navarro, Francisco ^b  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CÓRDOBA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Adenohypophysis; Pituitary cell

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; GONADOTROPIN; GROWTH HORMONE; PROLACTIN; THYROTROPIN;

ADENOHYPOPHYSIS; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASE; GONADOTROPIN RELEASE; GONADOTROPIN SECRETING CELL; GROWTH HORMONE RELEASE; HORMONE RELEASE; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS FUNCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLACTIN RELEASE; PROLACTIN SECRETING CELL; REVIEW; THYROTROPIN RELEASE;

EID: 0030583572     PISSN: 03037207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0303-7207(96)03898-1     Document Type: Article

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