The evaluation of ghrelin mRNA expression in human somatotroph adenomas

Neuroendocrinology Letters

Volumn 27, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 169-173

  Wasko, Ryszard ^a   Jaskuła, Magdalena ^a   Plewa, Robert ^b   Komarowska, Hanna ^a   Poreba, Elzbieta ^b   Goździcka Józefiak, Anna ^b   Liebert, Włodzimierz ^a   Bednarek, Janusz ^a   Sowiński, Jerzy ^a  

^a POZNAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Poland)

^b ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Adenomas; Ghrelin; Real time PCR; Somatotroph

Indexed keywords

BETA ACTIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GHRELIN; GLYCERALDEHYDE 3 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; MESSENGER RNA; OCTREOTIDE; SOMATOSTATIN DERIVATIVE;

ACROMEGALY; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC KIT; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; GENE EXPRESSION; GROWTH HORMONE SECRETING CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLOTS AND CURVES; PREOPERATIVE TREATMENT; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA ISOLATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSSPHENOIDAL SURGERY;

EID: 33745673586     PISSN: 0172780X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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