A pituitary cell type coexpressing messenger ribonucleic acid of proopiomelanocortin and the glycoprotein hormone α-subunit in neonatal rat and chicken: Rapid decline with age and reappearance in vitro under regulatory pressure of corticotropin-releasing hormone in the rat

Endocrinology

Volumn 147, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 4738-4752

  Pals, K ^a   Boussemaere, M ^a   Swinnen, E ^a   Vankelecom, H ^a   Denef, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; GLYCOPROTEIN; LEUKEMIA INHIBITORY FACTOR; PROOPIOMELANOCORTIN;

ADULTHOOD; ALPHA CHAIN; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL LINE; CELL POPULATION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; EX VIVO STUDY; FEMALE; HYPOPHYSIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

AGING; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ANTIMETABOLITES; BROMODEOXYURIDINE; CELLS, CULTURED; CHICKENS; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GLYCOPROTEIN HORMONES, ALPHA SUBUNIT; PARAFFIN EMBEDDING; PITUITARY GLAND; PRO-OPIOMELANOCORTIN; RATS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 33748800745     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 00137227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2006-0685     Document Type: Article

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