Discrete stages of anterior pituitary differentiation recapitulated in immortalized cell lines

Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology

Volumn 140, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 25-30

  T Alarid, Elaine ^a   Holley, Sandra ^a   Hayakawa, Mami ^a   L Mellon, Pamela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Gonadotrope; Oncogene; Transgenic mice

Indexed keywords

GLYCOPROTEIN; HORMONE; PROTEIN SUBUNIT;

ADENOHYPOPHYSIS; ANIMAL CELL; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL IMMORTALIZATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; GONADOTROPIN SECRETING CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINE, TRANSFORMED; CELL LINEAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; ONCOGENES; PITUITARY GLAND, ANTERIOR; PITUITARY HORMONES; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0032565738     PISSN: 03037207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0303-7207(98)00025-2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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