Expression of Pit-1 and growth hormone-releasing hormone receptor mRNA in human pituitary adenomas: Difference among functioning, silent, and other nonfunctioning adenomas

Endocrine Pathology

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 83-98

  Kobayashi, Ikuo ^a   Oka, Hidehiro ^a   Naritaka, Heiji ^a   Sato, Yuichi ^a   Fujii, Kiyotaka ^a   Kameya, Toru ^a  

^a KITASATO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Growth hormone releasing hormone receptor; Pit 1; Pituitary adenoma; Quantitative reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction; Silent adenoma

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; HORMONE RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; NEUROPEPTIDE RECEPTOR; POU1F1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; SOMATOTROPIN RELEASING HORMONE RECEPTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PIT 1; GROWTH HORMONE RELEASING FACTOR RECEPTOR; STEROIDOGENIC FACTOR 1;

ADENOMA; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS TUMOR; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ULTRASTRUCTURE; ADENOHYPOPHYSIS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HORMONE RELEASE; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLACTINOMA; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOMATIC CELL;

ADENOMA; ADULT; AGED; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MIDDLE AGED; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; RECEPTORS, NEUROPEPTIDE; RECEPTORS, PITUITARY HORMONE-REGULATING HORMONE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PIT-1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGE; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0036020541     PISSN: 10463976     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1385/EP:13:2:83     Document Type: Article

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