TSPY-LTA transgenic mice develop endocrine tumors of the pituitary and adrenal gland

Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology

Volumn 200, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 9-18

  Tascou, Semi ^a   Trappe, Ralf ^a   Nayernia, Karim ^a   Jarry, Hubertus ^a   König, Fatima ^a   Schulz Schaeffer, Walter ^a   Saeger, Wolfgang ^b   Meinhardt, Andreas ^c   Engel, Wolfgang ^a   Schmidtke, Jörg ^d   Burfeind, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b Marienkrankenhaus Hamburg   (Germany)

^c JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

ACTH; Ectopic expression; Pituitary adenomas; PRL; SV40 large T antigen; Transgenic mice

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN; PROLACTIN;

ADRENAL GLAND; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CELL SECRETION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; CORTICOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DNA FLANKING REGION; ENDOCRINE TUMOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLACTIN BLOOD LEVEL; SPERMATOGONIUM; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; TUMOR CELL;

EID: 0037469698     PISSN: 03037207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0303-7207(02)00426-4     Document Type: Article

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