Congenital multiple anterior pituitary hormone deficiencies: An approach to pituitary ontogenesis;Les deficits ante-hypophysaires associes congenitaux. Une approche de l'ontogenese hypophysaire

Annales d'Endocrinologie

Volumn 58, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 436-450

  Brue, Th ^a   Vallette, S ^a   Pellegrini Bouiller, I ^a   Enjalbert, A ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

GH; Growth retardation; Hypopituitarism; Hypothyroidism; Mutations; Pit 1; Pituitary hormone deficiency; Pituitary hormones; Pituitary ontogenesis; PRL; Transcription factors; TSH

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; GENE MUTATION; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS; HYPOPITUITARISM; PATHOGENESIS; REVIEW; TISSUE DIFFERENTIATION; ADENOHYPOPHYSIS; ANIMAL; DISEASE MODEL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOUSE; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT;

ADENOHYPOPHYSIS HORMONE; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; PIT1 PROTEIN, MOUSE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PIT 1;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HYPOPITUITARISM; MICE; PHENOTYPE; PITUITARY GLAND, ANTERIOR; PITUITARY HORMONES, ANTERIOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PIT-1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

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DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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