Ectopic ACTH syndrome: Discrepancy between somatostatin receptor status in vivo and ex vivo, and between immunostaining and gene transcription for POMC and CRH

Hormone Research

Volumn 57, Issue 5-6, 2002, Pages 200-204

  Kristiansen, Mikkel T ^a   Rasmussen, Lars M ^a   Olsen, Niels ^a   Asa, Sylvia L ^b   Jørgensen, Jens O L ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Corticotropin releasing hormone; Cushing's syndrome; Medullary thyroid carcinoma; Proopiomelanocortin

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; MESSENGER RNA; PENTETREOTIDE IN 111; PROOPIOMELANOCORTIN; RECEPTOR SUBTYPE; SOMATOSTATIN RECEPTOR;

ADULT; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CUSHING SYNDROME; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; THYROID MEDULLARY CARCINOMA; TISSUE;

ACTH SYNDROME, ECTOPIC; ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; CARCINOMA, MEDULLARY; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; CUSHING SYNDROME; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; INDIUM RADIOISOTOPES; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; PRO-OPIOMELANOCORTIN; RECEPTORS, SOMATOSTATIN; RNA, MESSENGER; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROIDECTOMY; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0036277933     PISSN: 03010163     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000058383     Document Type: Article

References (11)

1. The diagnosis and differential diagnosis of Cushing's syndrome and pseudo-Cushing's states
2. Pitfall of petrosal sinus sampling in a Cushing's syndrome secondary to ectopic adrenocorticotropin-corticotropin releasing hormone (ACTH-CRH) secretion
3. Gene transcription of receptors for growth hormone releasing peptide and somatostatin in human pituitary adenomas
4. Somatostatin receptor scintigraphy: Its value in tumor localization in patients with Cushing's syndrome caused by ectopic corticotropin or corticotropin-releasing hormone secretion
5. Molecular biology of somatostatin receptors
6. A phaeochromocytoma presenting with Cushing's syndrome associated with increased concentrations of circulating corticotrophin-releasing factor
7. Ectopic ACTH syndrome and CRH-mediated Cushing's syndrome
8. Characterization of human corticotrophin-releasing hormone and proopiomelanocortin-related peptides in a thymic carcinoid tumour responsible for Cushing's syndrome
9. Corticotropin-releasing hormone, proopiomelanocortin and glucocorticoid receptor gene expression in adrenocorticotropin-producing tumours in vitro
10. Immunohistologic localization of corticotrophin-releasing hormone in human tumors
11. Germline sequence variant S836S in the RET protooncogene is associated with low level predisposition to sporadic medullary thyroid carcinoma in the Spanish population