Intercellular communications within the rat anterior pituitary XII: Immunohistochemical and physiological evidences for the gap junctional coupling of the folliculo-stellate cells in the rat anterior pituitary

Tissue and Cell

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 281-291

  Sato, Yumi ^a   Hashitani, Hikaru ^a   Shirasawa, Nobuyuki ^b   Sakuma, Eisuke ^a   Naito, Akira ^b   Suzuki, Hikaru ^a   Asai, Yuji ^a   Sato, Goro ^a   Wada, Ikuo ^a   Herbert, Damon C ^c   Soji, Tsuyoshi ^a  

^a NAGOYA CITY UNIV MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b YAMAGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbenoxolone; Folliculo stellate cell; Gap junction; Pituitary gland; Rat

Indexed keywords

CARBENOXOLONE; CONNEXIN 43; HYPOPHYSIS HORMONE; PROTEIN S 100;

ADENOHYPOPHYSIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL POPULATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLOGY; ELECTRODE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GAP JUNCTION; HORMONE RELEASE; HYPOPHYSIS PARS TUBERALIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MEMBRANE DEPOLARIZATION; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; RAT; RAT STRAIN; REGULATORY MECHANISM; STELLATE CELL;

RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 21644476201     PISSN: 00408166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tice.2005.03.005     Document Type: Article

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