Three-dimensional imaging of hormone-secreting cells and their microvessel environment in estrogen-induced prolactinoma of the rat pituitary gland by confocal laser scanning microscopy

Applied Immunohistochemistry and Molecular Morphology

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 364-370

  Itoh, J ^a   Kawai, K ^a   Serizawa, A ^a   Yamamoto, Y ^a   Ogawa, K ^a   Matsuno, A ^a   Watanabe, K ^a   Osamura, R Y ^a  

^a TOKAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Confocal laser scanning microscopy; Estrogen induced prolactinoma; Hormone secreting cell; Microvessel environment; Three dimensional imaging

Indexed keywords

BROMOCRIPTINE; CORTICOTROPIN; ESTRADIOL DIPROPIONATE; ESTROGEN; FLUORESCEIN ISOTHIOCYANATE; GELATIN; GROWTH HORMONE; PROLACTIN; DRUG DERIVATIVE; ESTRADIOL; HORMONE ANTAGONIST;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN MICROCIRCULATION; CELL COUNT; CELL HYPERPLASIA; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; HORMONAL CARCINOGENESIS; HYPOPHYSIS TUMOR; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NEUROSECRETORY CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLACTINOMA; RAT; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION; ANIMAL; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; HYPOPHYSIS; IATROGENIC DISEASE; METABOLISM; MICROCIRCULATION; PATHOLOGY; RAT STRAIN; VASCULARIZATION;

ANIMAL; BROMOCRIPTINE; CORTICOTROPIN; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; GROWTH HORMONE; HORMONE ANTAGONISTS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROCIRCULATION; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; PITUITARY GLAND; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; PROLACTIN; PROLACTINOMA; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0035196860     PISSN: 10623345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00022744-200112000-00013     Document Type: Article

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