PTTG is a secretory protein in human pituitary adenomas and in mouse pituitary tumor cell lines

Endocrine Pathology

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 8-15

  Minematsu, Takeo ^a   Egashira, Noboru ^a   Kajiya, Hanako ^a   Takei, Mao ^b   Takekoshi, Susumu ^a   Itoh, Yoshiko ^a   Tsukamoto, Hideo ^a   Itoh, Johbu ^a   Sanno, Naoko ^b   Teramoto, Akira ^b   Osamura, Robert Yoshiyuki ^a  

^a TOKAI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adenoma; Pituitary; PTTG; Secretion; Tumorigenesis

Indexed keywords

SECURIN;

ANAPHASE; ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; AUTOCRINE EFFECT; CELL CYCLE ARREST; CELL VACUOLE; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE LOCATION; GOLGI COMPLEX; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; HYPOPHYSIS TUMOR; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; METAPHASE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARACRINE SIGNALING; PHASE TRANSITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INDUCTION; PROTEIN SECRETION; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY; TUMOR CELL LINE;

ADENOMA; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL LINE, TUMOR; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; MICE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 34548355077     PISSN: 10463976     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12022-007-0005-9     Document Type: Article

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