Ghrelin localization in rat and human thyroid and parathyroid glands and tumours

Histochemistry and Cell Biology

Volumn 125, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 239-246

  Raghay, Kawtar ^a   García Caballero, Tomás ^a   Nogueiras, Rubén ^a   Morel, Gérard ^b   Beiras, Andrés ^a   Diéguez, Carlos ^a   Gallego, Rosalía ^a  

^a Instituto de Salud Carlos III   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

C cells; Ghrelin; Immunohistochemistry; Parathyroid; Thyroid

Indexed keywords

GHRELIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; PARACRINE SIGNALING; PARATHYROID ADENOMA; PARATHYROID GLAND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; REGULATORY MECHANISM; THYROID CARCINOMA; THYROID GLAND;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; PARATHYROID GLANDS; PARATHYROID NEOPLASMS; PEPTIDE HORMONES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; THYROID GLAND; THYROID NEOPLASMS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 32444440393     PISSN: 09486143     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00418-005-0044-6     Document Type: Article

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