Target cells of γ3-melanocyte-stimulating hormone detected through intracellular Ca2+ responses in immature rat pituitary constitute a fraction of all main pituitary cell types, but mostly express multiple hormone phenotypes at the messenger ribonucleic acid level. Refractoriness to melanocortin-3 receptor blockade in the lacto-somatotroph lineage

Endocrinology

Volumn 140, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 4874-4885

  Roudbaraki, M ^a   Lorsignol, A ^a   Langouche, L ^a   Callewaert, G ^a   Vankelecom, H ^a   Denef, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; INTERMEDIN; MELANOCORTIN; CORTICOTROPIN RECEPTOR; GROWTH HORMONE; HORMONE; MELANOCORTIN 3 RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; PROLACTIN;

ADENOHYPOPHYSIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CELL POPULATION; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TARGET CELL; ANIMAL; CELL LINE; CYTOLOGY; DRUG ANTAGONISM; FEMALE; HYPOPHYSIS; INTRACELLULAR MEMBRANE; METABOLISM; NEWBORN; PHYSIOLOGY; SECRETION; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CALCIUM; CELL LINE; FEMALE; GROWTH HORMONE; HORMONES; INTRACELLULAR MEMBRANES; MELANOCYTE-STIMULATING HORMONES; PHENOTYPE; PITUITARY GLAND; PROLACTIN; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTOR, MELANOCORTIN, TYPE 3; RECEPTORS, CORTICOTROPIN; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 0033237657     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/endo.140.10.7080     Document Type: Article

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