Secretory and morphological heterogeneity of porcine somatotropes during postnatal development

Journal of Neuroendocrinology

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 769-775

  Castaño, Justo P ^a   Ruiz Navarro, Antonio ^a   Malagón, María M ^a   Hidalgo Díaz, Carmen ^a   Gracia Navarro, Francisco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CÓRDOBA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cellular heterogeneity; GH secretion; Pituitary; Somatotrope; Ultrastructure

Indexed keywords

GROWTH HORMONE;

AGE; AGING; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL DENSITY; CELL ORGANELLE; CELL SECRETION; CELL SIZE; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL SUBPOPULATION; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CENTRIFUGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; FEMALE; GROWTH HORMONE RELEASE; HYPOPHYSIS; MONOLAYER CULTURE; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; POSTNATAL GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SECRETORY GRANULE; SOMATIC CELL; SWINE;

EID: 0030865627     PISSN: 09538194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2826.1997.00642.x     Document Type: Article

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