Expression of members of the interleukin-6 family of cytokines and their receptors in human pituitary and pituitary adenomas

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 85, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 4411-4414

  Hanisch, A ^a   Dieterich, K D ^a   Dietzmann, K ^a   Ludecke K ^b   Buchfelder, M ^c   Fahlbusch, R ^c   Lehnert, H ^a  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARDIOTROPHIN 1; CILIARY NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CILIARY NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR RECEPTOR; GLYCOPROTEIN GP 130; INTERLEUKIN 11; INTERLEUKIN 11 RECEPTOR; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 6 RECEPTOR; LEUKEMIA INHIBITORY FACTOR; LEUKEMIA INHIBITORY FACTOR RECEPTOR; ONCOSTATIN M; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; HYPOPHYSIS FUNCTION; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; IMMUNOREGULATION; MALE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCHOOL CHILD; TRANSSPHENOIDAL SURGERY;

ADENOMA; ADULT; AGED; CILIARY NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CYTOKINES; FEMALE; GROWTH INHIBITORS; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-1; INTERLEUKIN-6; LEUKEMIA INHIBITORY FACTOR; LYMPHOKINES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ONCOSTATIN M; PEPTIDES; PITUITARY GLAND; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECEPTOR, CILIARY NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; RECEPTORS, CYTOKINE; RECEPTORS, INTERLEUKIN-1; RECEPTORS, INTERLEUKIN-6; RECEPTORS, ONCOSTATIN M; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 0034527644     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.85.11.4411     Document Type: Article

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