Pituitary tumorigenesis targeted by the ovine follicle-stimulating hormone β-subunit gene regulatory region in transgenic mice

Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology

Volumn 203, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 169-183

  Pernasetti, Flavia ^a   Spady, Thomas J ^a   Hall, Sara B ^a   Rosenberg, Suzanne B ^a   Givens, Marjory L ^a   Anderson, Scott ^a   Paulus, Michelle ^a   Miller, William L ^b   Mellon, Pamela L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Follicle stimulating hormone; Gonadotrope; T antigen; Transgenic mice; Tumors

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN; HYPOPHYSIS HORMONE; ONCOPROTEIN; RECOMBINANT FOLLITROPIN; VIRUS T ANTIGEN;

AGE; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BASOPHIL; CANCER MORTALITY; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL INFILTRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DYSPLASIA; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; FUSION GENE; GENDER; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GIANT CELL; GONADOTROPIN SECRETING CELL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; HYPOPHYSIS; HYPOPHYSIS CELL; HYPOPHYSIS GONAD SYSTEM; HYPOPHYSIS TUMOR; MALE; MITOSIS INDEX; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATOR GENE; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SIMIAN VIRUS 40; SPERM; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; WILD TYPE;

EID: 0037684960     PISSN: 03037207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0303-7207(02)00430-6     Document Type: Article

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