The GnRH receptor gene is preferentially expressed in functioning gonadotroph adenomas and displays a Mae III polymorphism site

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 115-123

  Kottler, Marie Laure ^a,d   Seret Bégué, Dominique ^b   Lahlou, Najiba ^c   Assayag, Michel ^b   Carré, Marie Claude ^a   Lagarde, Jean Pierre ^d   Ajzenberg, Christiane ^b   Christin Maitre, Sophie ^e   Bouchard, Philippe ^e   Mikol, Jacqueline ^b   Counis, Raymond ^a   Warnet, André ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b HÔPITAL LARIBOISIÈRE   (France)

^c HÔPITAL SAINT VINCENT DE PAUL   (France)

^d PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^e HÔPITAL SAINT ANTOINE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GONADORELIN;

ADENOMA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALLELE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DRUG RECEPTOR BINDING; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GONADOTROPIN SECRETING CELL; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR GENE;

ADENOMA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BASE SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GONADOTROPINS, PITUITARY; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RECEPTORS, LHRH;

EID: 15144353148     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2265.1998.00500.x     Document Type: Article

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