Change in Expression of Basic Fibroblast Growth Factor mRNA in a Pituitary Tumor Clonal Cell Line

Endocrine Pathology

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 145-149

  Fukuro, Hitomi ^a   Mogi, Chihiro ^a   Yokoyama, Kotaro ^a   Inoue, Kinji ^a  

^a SAITAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Basic fibroblast growth factor; MtT E cells; Pit 1 protein

Indexed keywords

FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; HYPOPHYSIS HORMONE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PIT 1; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; MESSENGER RNA; POU1F1 PROTEIN, RAT; RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL CULTURE; CELL SHAPE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPITHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; FIBROBLAST; HORMONE RELEASE; HYPOPHYSIS TUMOR; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLACTINOMA; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOMATIC CELL; TUMOR CELL LINE; VASCULARIZATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CANCER TRANSPLANTATION; CELL CLONE; FISCHER 344 RAT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; NEOVASCULARIZATION (PATHOLOGY); PATHOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CLONE CELLS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; NEOPLASM TRANSPLANTATION; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, NEOPLASM; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PIT-1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0142121337     PISSN: 10463976     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1385/EP:14:2:145     Document Type: Conference Paper

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