Functional significance of Prop-1 gene expression in pituitary adenomas

Endocrine Journal

Volumn 47, Issue SUPPL., 2000, Pages

  Usui, Takeshi ^a,b   Nakamura, Yoshio ^a   Mizuta, Haruo ^a   Murabe, Hiroyuki ^a   Muro, Seiji ^a   Suda, Michio ^a   Tanaka, Kiyoshi ^a   Tanaka, Issei ^a   Shimatsu, Akira ^a   Nakao, Kazuwa ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION KYOTO MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Direct sequencing; Gene expression; Human Prop 1; Pituitary adenoma; Transcription

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CARCINOGENESIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA;

EID: 0034106932     PISSN: 09188959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1507/endocrj.47.supplmarch_s85     Document Type: Article

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