Thyroid hormone is essential for pituitary somatotropes and lactotropes

Endocrinology

Volumn 140, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1884-1892

  Stahl, Justin H ^a,d   Kendall, Susan K ^a,e   Brinkmeier, Michelle L ^a   Greco, Tamara L ^a,f   Watkins Chow, Dawn E ^a,g   Campos Barros, Angel ^b   Lloyd, Ricardo V ^c   Camper, Sally A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^d PENN STATE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f EASTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

THYROID HORMONE; THYROXINE;

ADENOHYPOPHYSIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HYPOGONADISM; HYPOTHYROIDISM; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYROID HORMONE RELEASE;

EID: 0032982498     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/endo.140.4.6627     Document Type: Article

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