Rat anterior pituitary cells in vitro can partly reconstruct in vivo topographic affinities

Anatomical Record - Part A Discoveries in Molecular, Cellular, and Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 272, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 548-555

  Noda, Takahiro ^a   Kikuchi, Motoshi ^a   Kaidzu, Sachiko ^a   Yashiro, Takashi ^a  

^a JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anterior pituitary gland; Confocal laser microscopy; Immunohistochemistry; Primary monolayer culture; Topographic cell affinity

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; GROWTH HORMONE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PROLACTIN;

ADENOHYPOPHYSIS; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HYPOPHYSIS CELL; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TOPOGRAPHY;

EID: 0141960091     PISSN: 0003276X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.a.10065     Document Type: Article

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