Ultrastructural and immunocytochemical studies of prolactin-secreting cells in adenohypophysis of the mink (Mustela vison)

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 107, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 311-321

  Vidal, Sergio ^a   Lombardero, Matilde ^a   Moya, Lucas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROLACTIN;

ADENOHYPOPHYSIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL ORGANELLE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MINK; NONHUMAN; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PREPUBERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLACTIN SECRETING CELL; PUBERTY; ROUGH ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; SECRETORY GRANULE;

EID: 0031238914     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/gcen.1997.6926     Document Type: Article

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