Antipituitary antibodies in idiopathic hyperprolactinemic patients

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1107, Issue , 2007, Pages 129-135

  De Bellis, Annamaria ^a   Colao, Annamaria ^b   Pivonello, Rosario ^b   Savoia, Antonella ^a   Battaglia, Marina ^a   Ruocco, Giuseppe ^a   Tirelli, Gilda ^a   Lombardi, Gaetano ^b   Bellastella, Antonio ^a   Bizzarro, Antonio ^a  

^a SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Antipituitary antibodies; Idiopathic hyperprolactinemia; Lymphocytic hypophysitis

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; CABERGOLINE; HYPOPHYSIS HORMONE; PITUITARY ANTIBODY; PROLACTIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; AUTOANTIBODY;

ADENOHYPOPHYSIS; ADULT; ANTIBODY TITER; AUTOIMMUNITY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERPROLACTINEMIA; HYPOPHYSIS FUNCTION; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PROLACTIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROLACTINOMA; SYMPTOM; ARTICLE; HYPOPHYSIS; IMMUNOLOGY; PATHOLOGY;

ADULT; AUTOANTIBODIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERPROLACTINEMIA; MALE; PITUITARY GLAND;

EID: 34648837682     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1381.014     Document Type: Conference Paper

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