Interleukin-6 is inhibited by glucocorticoids and stimulates ACTH secretion and POMC expression in human corticotroph pituitary adenomas

Experimental and Clinical Endocrinology and Diabetes

Volumn 108, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 202-207

  Paez Pereda M ^a   Lohrer, P ^a   Kovalovsky, D ^b,c   Perez Castro, C ^b   Goldberg, V ^d   Losa, M ^e   Chervin A ^f   Berner, S ^f   Molina, H ^f,g   Stalla, G K ^a   Renner, U ^a   Arzt, E ^b,c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTO DE FISIOLOGÍA   (Argentina)

^c Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

^d INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES MÉDICAS ALFREDO LANARI   (Argentina)

^e SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^f Hospital Oftalmologico Santa Lucia   (Argentina)

^g HOSPITAL RAMOS MEJÍA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

ACTH; Corticotroph adenoma; Interleukin 6; Proopiomelanocortin

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; DEXAMETHASONE; INTERLEUKIN 6; PROOPIOMELANOCORTIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE RELEASE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HORMONE RELEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOPHYSIS TUMOR; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADENOMA; ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ADULT; CUSHING SYNDROME; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-6; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; PRO-OPIOMELANOCORTIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 12944250985     PISSN: 09477349     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2000-7887     Document Type: Article

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