Trk neurotrophin receptor family immunoreactivity in rat and human pituitary tissues

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 243, Issue 1-3, 1998, Pages 13-16

  Aguado, F ^a   Majo G ^a   Gomez De Aranda I ^a   Ferrer, I ^b,c  

^a Laboratori Neurbio Cellular I M   (Spain)

^b Unitat de Farmacologia   (Spain)

^c Hospitalet   (Spain)

Author keywords

Human hypophysis; Nerve growth factor; Neurotrophin; Pituitary; Rat; Tumour

Indexed keywords

NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; NEUROTROPHIN RECEPTOR;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NERVE ENDING; NEUROSECRETORY CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TUMOR CELL;

ADENOMA; ANIMALS; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; NERVE FIBERS; NERVE GROWTH FACTORS; NEURONS; PITUITARY GLAND; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; RECEPTOR, TRKA; RECEPTOR, TRKC; RECEPTORS, NERVE GROWTH FACTOR;

EID: 0031912303     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(98)00074-3     Document Type: Article

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