Ultrastructural immunolocalization of IGF-1 and insulin receptors in rat pituitary culture: Evidence of a functional interaction between gonadotroph and lactotroph cells

Cell and Tissue Research

Volumn 327, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 121-132

  Gutiérrez, Silvina ^a   Mukdsi, Jorge Humberto ^a   Aoki, Agustín ^a   Torres, Alicia Inés ^a   Soler, Alejandro Peralta ^b   Orgnero, Elsa Margarita ^a  

^a FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS MÉDICAS   (Argentina)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Gonadotroph; IGF 1 receptor; Immunocytochemistry; Insulin receptor; Lactotroph; Rat (Wistar, female)

Indexed keywords

BROXURIDINE; GENISTEIN; GONADOTROPIN; GROWTH FACTOR; INSULIN; INSULIN RECEPTOR; PROLACTIN; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE INHIBITOR; SOMATOMEDIN C; SOMATOMEDIN C RECEPTOR;

ADENOHYPOPHYSIS; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL INTERACTION; CELL LABELING; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL TYPE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; COLLOIDAL GOLD PROTEIN A TECHNIQUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GONADOTROPIN SECRETING CELL; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; HYPOPHYSIS CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOLOCALIZATION; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RAT;

EID: 33751546445     PISSN: 0302766X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00441-006-0283-4     Document Type: Article

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