Sequence analysis of the PRKAR1A gene in sporadic somatotroph and other pituitary tumours

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 443-448

  Kaltsas, Gregory A ^a   Kola, Blerina ^a   Borboli, Ninetta ^a   Morris, Damian G ^a   Gueorguiev, Maria ^a   Swords, Frankie M ^a   Czirják, Sándor ^b   Kirschner, Lawrence S ^c   Stratakis, Constantine A ^c   Korbonits, Márta ^a   Grossman, Ashley B ^a  

^a ST BARTHOLOMEW S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b Institute of Neurosurgery   (Hungary)

^c EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CORTICOTROPIN; CYCLIC AMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; FOLLITROPIN; GLYCERALDEHYDE 3 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; GROWTH HORMONE; MESSENGER RNA; PROLACTIN; PROTEIN; PROTEIN PRKAR1A; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARNEY COMPLEX; CHROMOSOME 17Q; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HORMONE RELEASE; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOPHYSIS TUMOR; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPHOCYTE; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA EXTRACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOMATIC CELL; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

ADENOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 17; CYCLIC AMP-DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASES; FEMALE; GENES, TUMOR SUPPRESSOR; GLYCERALDEHYDE-3-PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASES; HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE ENDOCRINE NEOPLASIA; MUTATION; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, NEOPLASM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 18644370689     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2265.2002.01643.x     Document Type: Article

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