Pituitary somatotroph adenoma producing growth hormone (GH)-releasing hormone (GHRH) with an elevated plasma GHRH concentration: A model case for autocrine and paracrine regulation of GH secretion by GHRH

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 84, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 3241-3247

  Matsuno, Akira ^a   Katakami, Hideki ^b   Sanno, Naoko ^c   Ogino, Yoshio ^d   Osamura, R Yoshiyuki ^c   Matsukura, Shigeru ^b   Shimizu, Naokata ^d   Nagashima, Tadashi ^a  

^a TEIKYO UNIVERSITY CHIBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIYAZAKI   (Japan)

^c TOKAI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d TEIKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROWTH HORMONE; GROWTH HORMONE RELEASING FACTOR; GROWTH HORMONE RELEASING FACTOR RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA;

ACROMEGALY; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOCRINE EFFECT; CASE REPORT; GENE EXPRESSION; GROWTH HORMONE RELEASE; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; PARACRINE SIGNALING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATIC CELL; TUMOR GROWTH;

EID: 0033305613     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.84.9.3241     Document Type: Article

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