Pars intermedia of the human pituitary revisited: Morphologic aspects and frequency of hyperplasia of POMC-peptide immunoreactive cells

Endocrine Pathology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 55-64

  Horvath, Eva ^a   Kovacs, Kalman ^a   Lloyd, Ricardo V ^b  

^a ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Adenoma; Human pituitary; Hyperplasia; Pars intermedia; POMC cells

Indexed keywords

BETA ENDORPHIN; CORTICOTROPIN; PROOPIOMELANOCORTIN;

ADENOHYPOPHYSIS; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERPLASIA; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; HYPOPHYSIS INTERMEDIATE LOBE; HYPOPHYSIS PARS DISTALIS; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0032891121     PISSN: 10463976     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02738816     Document Type: Article

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