Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone and Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone Receptor Messenger Ribonucleic Acids Expression in Nontumorous and Neoplastic Pituitaries

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 82, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1974-1982

  Sanno, Naoko ^a,b   Jin, Long ^a   Qian, Xiang ^a   Osamura, R Yoshiyuki ^b   Scheithauer, Bernd W ^a   Kovacs, Kalman ^c   Lloyd, Ricardo V ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b TOKAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GONADORELIN; GONADORELIN RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS; HYPOPHYSIS TUMOR; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REFERENCE VALUE;

GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PITUITARY GLAND; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECEPTORS, LHRH; REFERENCE VALUES; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0031156848     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.82.6.1974     Document Type: Article

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