Differential regulation of proopiomelanocortin and pituitary-restricted transcription factor (TPIT), a new marker of normal and adenomatous human corticotrophs

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 88, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 3050-3056

  Vallette Kasic, Sophie ^a,b   Figarella Branger, Dominique ^b   Grino, Michel ^a   Pulichino, Anne Marie ^c   Dufour, Henry ^b   Grisoli, François ^b   Enjalbert, Alain ^a   Drouin, Jacques ^c   Brue, Thierry ^a,b  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b TIMONE HOSPITAL   (France)

^c Hopital de la Timone ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID; GONADOTROPIN; GROWTH HORMONE; MESSENGER RNA; PROLACTIN; PROOPIOMELANOCORTIN; T BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TPIT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADRENALECTOMY; ADULT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE CONTROL; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; UPREGULATION;

ADENOMA; ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ANIMALS; DOWN-REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; PITUITARY DISEASES; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; PRO-OPIOMELANOCORTIN; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL; UP-REGULATION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0037622837     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.2002-021934     Document Type: Article

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