Expression of the five somatostatin receptor (SSTR1-5) subtypes in rat pituitary somatotrophes: Quantitative analysis by double-label immunofluorescence confocal microscopy

Endocrinology

Volumn 138, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 4473-4476

  Kumar, Ujendra ^a   Laird, Dale ^b   Srikant, Coimbatore B ^a   Escher, Emanuel ^c   Patel, Yogesh C ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b ROYAL VICTORIA HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RECEPTOR SUBTYPE; SOMATOSTATIN RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; HYPOPHYSIS CELL; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; RAT;

EID: 0030930440     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/endo.138.10.5566     Document Type: Article

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