Comparison of ACTH secretion in Cushing's adenoma and clinically silent corticotroph adenoma by cell immunoblot assay

Endocrine Journal

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 285-292

  Kojima, Yasuhiro ^a   Suzuki, Shinichi ^a   Yamamura, Koji ^a   Ohhashi, Genichiro ^a   Yamamoto, Isao ^a  

^a YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cell immunoblot assay; Cushing's disease; Silent corticotroph adenoma

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; HYDROCORTISONE; HORMONE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORTICOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; CUSHING ADENOMA; CUSHING DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYDROCORTISONE RELEASE; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARAMETER; SILENT CORTICOTROPH ADENOMA; TRANSSPHENOIDAL SURGERY; TUMOR VOLUME; ADENOMA; BLOOD; CUSHING SYNDROME; HYPOPHYSIS TUMOR; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; SECRETION; STAINING;

ADENOMA; ADOLESCENT; ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ADULT; CUSHING SYNDROME; FEMALE; HORMONES; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; STAINING AND LABELING;

EID: 0036022454     PISSN: 09188959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1507/endocrj.49.285     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. Silent corticotropic adenomas of the human pituitary gland
2. Corticotroph cell adenoma without typical manifestations of Cushing's disease presenting with cavernous sinus syndrome following pituitary apoplexy
3. Silent corticotroph cell adenoma with high levels of plasma ACTH: Case report
4. A case of non-functioning pituitary adenoma resembling so-called silent corticotroph adenoma
5. Clinically silent corticotroph tumors of the pituitary gland
6. Large and invasive silent corticotroph-cell adenoma with elevated serum ACTH: A case report
7. Pro-opiomel-anocotin gene expression in silent corticotroph-cell adenoma and Cushing's disease
8. Corticotropin immunoreactivity in silent chromophobe adenomas
9. Identification by the sequential cell immunoblot assay of a subpopulation of rat dopamine-unresponsive lactotrophs
10. Analysis of the secretion from single anterior pituitary cells by cell immunoblot assay
11. Identification of somatotrophs, mammosomatotrophs, and mammotrophs by sandwich cell immunoblot assay in GH-secreting adenomas and prolactinomas: Correlations between the proportions of hormone secreting cells and tumor size
12. Pituitary adenomas that produce adrenocorticotropic hormone and alpha subunit: Clinicopathological, immunohistochemical, ultrastructural, and immunoelectron microscopy studies in nine cases
13. Silent corticotroph adenomas: Case report and literature review
14. Changes in hormone production of a recurrent silent corticotroph adenoma of the pituitary: A histologic, immunohistochemical, ultrastructural, and tissue culture study
15. Analysis of endocrine active and clinically silent corticotropic pituitary adenomas by in situ hybridization
16. Hormone production in clinically nonfunctioning pituitary adenomas
17. Biochemical assessment of Cushing's disease in patients with corticotroph macroadenomas
18. Cushing's disease: A comparison of pituitary corticotroph microadenomas and macroadenomas