Gene expression of adrenomedullin, leptin, their receptors and neuropeptide Y in hormone-secreting and non-functioning pituitary adenomas, meningiomas and malignant intracranial tumours in humans

Neuropathology and Applied Neurobiology

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 215-222

  Knerr, I ^a   Schuster, S ^a   Nomikos, P ^a   Buchfelder, M ^a   Dotsch J ^a   Schoof, E ^a   Fahlbusch, R ^a   Rascher, W ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adenomas; Adrenomedullin; Adrenomedullin receptor; Intracranial tumours; Leptin; Leptin receptor; Neuropeptide Y

Indexed keywords

ADRENOMEDULLIN; CD31 ANTIGEN; GLYCERALDEHYDE 3 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; LEPTIN; LEPTIN RECEPTOR; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; PROLACTIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; FEMALE; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; INTRACRANIAL TUMOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENINGIOMA; PEPTIDERGIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLACTINOMA; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ADENOMA; ADRENOMEDULLIN; ADULT; AGED; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CARRIER PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HORMONES; HUMANS; LEPTIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; NEUROPEPTIDES; PEPTIDES; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; RECEPTORS, PEPTIDE;

EID: 0034911848     PISSN: 03051846     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.0305-1846.2001.00324.x     Document Type: Article

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