Pituitary changes in Prop1 transgenic mice: Hormone producing tumors and signet-ring type gonadotropes

Acta Histochemica et Cytochemica

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 47-57

  Egashira, Noboru ^a   Minematsu, Takeo ^a   Miyai, Syunsuke ^a   Takekoshi, Susumu ^a   Camper, Sally A ^b   Osamura, Robert Y ^a  

^a TOKAI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Adenoma; Pituitary; Pituitary signet ring cell; Prop1

Indexed keywords

GROWTH HORMONE; PROLACTIN; THYROTROPIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PIT 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PROP1;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GROWTH HORMONE SECRETING ADENOMA; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE ACTION; HYPERPLASIA; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; HYPOPHYSIS CELL; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROLACTINOMA; SIGNET RING CARCINOMA; THYROTROPIN SECRETING ADENOMA; WEIGHT CHANGE;

MUS; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 46149109038     PISSN: 00445991     EISSN: 13475800     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1267/ahc.08007     Document Type: Article

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