The release of leptin and its effect on hormone release from human pituitary adenomas

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 781-789

  Korbonits, Márta ^b   Chitnis, Meenali M ^b   Gueorguiev, Maria ^b   Norman, Dennis ^b   Rosenfelder, Nicola ^b   Suliman, Mohamed ^a   Jones, T Hugh ^a   Fabbri, Kate Noonan Andrea ^b   Besser, G Michael ^b   Burrin, Jacky M ^b   Grossman, Ashley B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b ST BARTHOLOMEW S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN; LEPTIN; LEPTIN RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; THYROTROPIN;

ADULT; AGED; ALPHA CHAIN; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLITROPIN RELEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; HYPOPHYSIS CELL; HYPOPHYSIS FUNCTION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INCUBATION TIME; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN SECRETION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; THYROTROPIN RELEASE; TRANSSPHENOIDAL SURGERY;

ADENOMA; ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CARRIER PROTEINS; GROWTH HORMONE; HUMANS; LEPTIN; PARACRINE COMMUNICATION; PITUITARY GLAND; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; PROLACTINOMA; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; STIMULATION, CHEMICAL; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0035726429     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2265.2001.01279.x     Document Type: Article

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